Duncan Coutts authored Jan 09, 2023 and Marge Bot committed Apr 03, 2024

When the GC scavenges a TSO it needs to scavenge the tso->blocked_info
but the blocked_info is a big union and what lives there depends on the
two->why_blocked, which for I/O-related reasons is something that in
principle is the responsibility of the I/O manager and not the GC. So
the right thing to do is for the GC to ask the I/O manager to sscavenge
the blocked_info if it encounters any I/O-related why_blocked reasons.

So we add scavengeTSOIOManager in IOManager.{h,c} with the usual style.

Now as it happens, right now, there is no special scavenging to do, so
the implementation of scavengeTSOIOManager is a fancy no-op. That's
because the select I/O manager uses only the fd and target members,
which are not GC pointers, and the win32-legacy I/O manager _ought_ to
be using GC-managed heap objects for the StgAsyncIOResult but it is
actually usingthe C heap, so again no GC pointers. If the win32-legacy
were doing this more sensibly, then scavengeTSOIOManager would be the
right place to do the GC magic.

Future I/O managers will need GC heap objects in the tso->blocked_info
and will make use of this functionality.