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Ben Gamari pushed to branch wip/gc/instrumentation
at <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc">Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC</a>
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<strong><a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/commit/395ab8d5e6a0cc467a7b280142fe8e567cc5a70d">395ab8d5</a></strong>
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:23:46Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts: Implement concurrent collection in the nonmoving collector
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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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:23:46Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Nonmoving: Disable memory inventory with concurrent collection
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts: Tracing support for nonmoving collection events
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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<strong><a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/commit/a48300c5cc8cfab469ffc3a1b46d188087819f30">a48300c5</a></strong>
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts: Introduce non-moving heap census
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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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts/Eventlog: More descriptive error message
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Allow census without live word count
Otherwise the census is unsafe when mutators are running due to
concurrent mutation.
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<strong><a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/commit/c6db05b2e4c51d17b6975d3a510bd9c9fd4fd7d9">c6db05b2</a></strong>
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">NonmovingCensus: Emit samples to eventlog
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts: Add GetMyThreadCPUTime helper
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<span>by Ben Gamari</span>
<i>at 2019-06-19T15:24:09Z</i>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">rts/Stats: Track time usage of nonmoving collector
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