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* rts: Implement concurrent collection in the nonmoving collectorBen Gamari2019-10-201-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* rts/StableName: Expose FOR_EACH_STABLE_NAME, freeSnEntry, SNT_sizeÖmer Sinan Ağacan2019-10-201-23/+2
| | | | | These will be needed when we implement sweeping in the nonmoving collector.
* Stable name comment wibblesDavid Feuer2018-09-171-17/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Summary: Some comments in the `StableName` code still referred to stable pointer details. Fix that. Reviewers: bgamari, erikd, simonmar Reviewed By: simonmar Subscribers: rwbarton, carter Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5152
* Finish stable splitDavid Feuer2018-08-291-0/+364
Long ago, the stable name table and stable pointer tables were one. Now, they are separate, and have significantly different implementations. I believe the time has come to finish the split that began in #7674. * Divide `rts/Stable` into `rts/StableName` and `rts/StablePtr`. * Give each table its own mutex. * Add FFI functions `hs_lock_stable_ptr_table` and `hs_unlock_stable_ptr_table` and document them. These are intended to replace the previously undocumented `hs_lock_stable_tables` and `hs_lock_stable_tables`, which are now documented as deprecated synonyms. * Make `eqStableName#` use pointer equality instead of unnecessarily comparing stable name table indices. Reviewers: simonmar, bgamari, erikd Reviewed By: bgamari Subscribers: rwbarton, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15555 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5084