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This extends the non-moving collector to allow concurrent collection. The full design of the collector implemented here is described in detail in a technical note B. Gamari. "A Concurrent Garbage Collector For the Glasgow Haskell Compiler" (2018) This extension involves the introduction of a capability-local remembered set, known as the /update remembered set/, which tracks objects which may no longer be visible to the collector due to mutation. To maintain this remembered set we introduce a write barrier on mutations which is enabled while a concurrent mark is underway. The update remembered set representation is similar to that of the nonmoving mark queue, being a chunked array of `MarkEntry`s. Each `Capability` maintains a single accumulator chunk, which it flushed when it (a) is filled, or (b) when the nonmoving collector enters its post-mark synchronization phase. While the write barrier touches a significant amount of code it is conceptually straightforward: the mutator must ensure that the referee of any pointer it overwrites is added to the update remembered set. However, there are a few details: * In the case of objects with a dirty flag (e.g. `MVar`s) we can exploit the fact that only the *first* mutation requires a write barrier. * Weak references, as usual, complicate things. In particular, we must ensure that the referee of a weak object is marked if dereferenced by the mutator. For this we (unfortunately) must introduce a read barrier, as described in Note [Concurrent read barrier on deRefWeak#] (in `NonMovingMark.c`). * Stable names are also a bit tricky as described in Note [Sweeping stable names in the concurrent collector] (`NonMovingSweep.c`). We take quite some pains to ensure that the high thread count often seen in parallel Haskell applications doesn't affect pause times. To this end we allow thread stacks to be marked either by the thread itself (when it is executed or stack-underflows) or the concurrent mark thread (if the thread owning the stack is never scheduled). There is a non-trivial handshake to ensure that this happens without racing which is described in Note [StgStack dirtiness flags and concurrent marking]. Co-Authored-by:Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omer@well-typed.com>
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Ben Gamari authored
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This introduces a few events to mark key points in the nonmoving garbage collection cycle. These include: * `EVENT_CONC_MARK_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of a round of marking. This may happen more than once in a single major collection since we the major collector iterates until it hits a fixed point. * `EVENT_CONC_MARK_END`, denoting the end of a round of marking. * `EVENT_CONC_SYNC_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of the post-mark synchronization phase * `EVENT_CONC_UPD_REM_SET_FLUSH`, indicating that a capability has flushed its update remembered set. * `EVENT_CONC_SYNC_END`, denoting that all mutators have flushed their update remembered sets. * `EVENT_CONC_SWEEP_BEGIN`, denoting the beginning of the sweep portion of the major collection. * `EVENT_CONC_SWEEP_END`, denoting the end of the sweep portion of the major collection.
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This introduces a simple census of the non-moving heap (not to be confused with the heap census used by the heap profiler). This collects basic heap usage information (number of allocated and free blocks) which is useful when characterising fragmentation of the nonmoving heap.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
Otherwise the census is unsafe when mutators are running due to concurrent mutation.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
This commit does two things: * Allow aging of objects during the preparatory minor GC * Refactor handling of static objects to avoid the use of a hashtable
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
Perf showed that the this single div was capturing up to 10% of samples in nonmovingMark. However, the overwhelming majority of cases is looking at small block sizes. These cases we can easily compute explicitly, allowing the compiler to turn the division into a significantly more efficient division-by-constant. While the increase in source code looks scary, this all optimises down to very nice looking assembler. At this point the only remaining hotspots in nonmovingBlockCount are due to memory access.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
This shortens MarkQueueEntry by 30% (one word)
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Ben Gamari authored
Use memchr instead of a open-coded loop. This is nearly twice as fast in a synthetic benchmark.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
Ensure that the bitmap of the segmentt that we will clear next is in cache by the time we reach it.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
This improved overall runtime on nofib's constraints test by nearly 10%.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
Previously we would look at the segment header to determine the block size despite the fact that we already had the block size at hand.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
Previously we would perform a preparatory moving collection, resulting in many things being added to the mark queue. When we finished with this we would realize in nonmovingCollect that there was already a collection running, in which case we would simply not run the nonmoving collector. However, it was very easy to end up in a "treadmilling" situation: all subsequent GC following the first failed major GC would be scheduled as major GCs. Consequently we would continuously feed the concurrent collector with more mark queue entries and it would never finish. This patch aborts the major collection far earlier, meaning that we avoid adding nonmoving objects to the mark queue and allowing the concurrent collector to finish.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
This uses the nonmoving collector when compiling the testcases.
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Ben Gamari authored
The nonmoving GC doesn't support `+RTS -G1`, which this test insists on.
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
The debugged RTS initializes the heap with 0xaa, which breaks the (admittedly rather fragile) assumption that uninitialized fields are set to 0x00: ``` Wrong exit code for heap_all(nonmoving)(expected 0 , actual 1 ) Stderr ( heap_all ): heap_all: user error (assertClosuresEq: Closures do not match Expected: FunClosure {info = StgInfoTable {entry = Nothing, ptrs = 0, nptrs = 1, tipe = FUN_0_1, srtlen = 0, code = Nothing}, ptrArgs = [], dataArgs = [0]} Actual: FunClosure {info = StgInfoTable {entry = Nothing, ptrs = 0, nptrs = 1, tipe = FUN_0_1, srtlen = 1032832, code = Nothing}, ptrArgs = [], dataArgs = [12297829382473034410]} CallStack (from HasCallStack): assertClosuresEq, called at heap_all.hs:230:9 in main:Main ) ``` -
Ben Gamari authored
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Ben Gamari authored
The nonmoving collector doesn't support -G1
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Ben Gamari authored
The nonmoving way finalizes things in a different order.
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Ben Gamari authored
includes/rts/NonMoving.h
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