1 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 * (c) The GHC Team 1998-2006
5 * Generational garbage collector
7 * Documentation on the architecture of the Garbage Collector can be
8 * found in the online commentary:
10 * http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Storage/GC
12 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
17 #include "OSThreads.h"
19 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
22 ToDo: move this to the wiki when the implementation is done.
24 We're only going to try to parallelise the copying GC for now. The
27 Each thread has a gc_thread structure (see below) which holds its
28 thread-local data. We'll keep a pointer to this in a thread-local
29 variable, or possibly in a register.
31 In the gc_thread structure is a step_workspace for each step. The
32 primary purpose of the step_workspace is to hold evacuated objects;
33 when an object is evacuated, it is copied to the "todo" block in
34 the thread's workspace for the appropriate step. When the todo
35 block is full, it is pushed to the global step->todos list, which
36 is protected by a lock. (in fact we intervene a one-place buffer
37 here to reduce contention).
39 A thread repeatedly grabs a block of work from one of the
40 step->todos lists, scavenges it, and keeps the scavenged block on
41 its own ws->scavd_list (this is to avoid unnecessary contention
42 returning the completed buffers back to the step: we can just
43 collect them all later).
45 When there is no global work to do, we start scavenging the todo
46 blocks in the workspaces. This is where the scan_bd field comes
47 in: we can scan the contents of the todo block, when we have
48 scavenged the contents of the todo block (up to todo_bd->free), we
49 don't want to move this block immediately to the scavd_list,
50 because it is probably only partially full. So we remember that we
51 have scanned up to this point by saving the block in ws->scan_bd,
52 with the current scan pointer in ws->scan. Later, when more
53 objects have been copied to this block, we can come back and scan
54 the rest. When we visit this workspace again in the future,
55 scan_bd may still be the same as todo_bd, or it might be different:
56 if enough objects were copied into this block that it filled up,
57 then we will have allocated a new todo block, but *not* pushed the
58 old one to the step, because it is partially scanned.
60 The reason to leave scanning the todo blocks until last is that we
61 want to deal with full blocks as far as possible.
62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
65 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68 A step workspace exists for each step for each GC thread. The GC
69 thread takes a block from the todos list of the step into the
70 scanbd and then scans it. Objects referred to by those in the scan
71 block are copied into the todo or scavd blocks of the relevant step.
73 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
75 typedef struct step_workspace_ {
76 step * stp; // the step for this workspace
77 struct gc_thread_ * gct; // the gc_thread that contains this workspace
79 // block that is currently being scanned
81 StgPtr scan; // the scan pointer
83 // where objects to be scavenged go
85 StgPtr todo_free; // free ptr for todo_bd
86 StgPtr todo_lim; // lim for todo_bd
88 bdescr * buffer_todo_bd; // buffer to reduce contention
89 // on the step's todos list
91 // where large objects to be scavenged go
92 bdescr * todo_large_objects;
94 // Objects that need not be, or have already been, scavenged.
96 lnat n_scavd_blocks; // count of blocks in this list
100 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
103 Every GC thread has one of these. It contains all the step specific
104 workspaces and other GC thread loacl information. At some later
105 point it maybe useful to move this other into the TLS store of the
107 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
109 typedef struct gc_thread_ {
111 OSThreadId id; // The OS thread that this struct belongs to
113 Condition wake_cond; // So we can go to sleep between GCs
117 nat thread_index; // a zero based index identifying the thread
119 step_workspace ** steps; // 2-d array (gen,step) of workspaces
121 bdescr * free_blocks; // a buffer of free blocks for this thread
122 // during GC without accessing the block
123 // allocators spin lock.
125 lnat gc_count; // number of gc's this thread has done
127 // --------------------
130 step *evac_step; // Youngest generation that objects
131 // should be evacuated to in
132 // evacuate(). (Logically an
133 // argument to evacuate, but it's
134 // static a lot of the time so we
135 // optimise it into a per-thread
138 rtsBool failed_to_evac; // failure to evacuate an object typically
139 // causes it to be recorded in the mutable
142 rtsBool eager_promotion; // forces promotion to the evac gen
143 // instead of the to-space
144 // corresponding to the object
146 lnat thunk_selector_depth; // ummm.... not used as of now
155 extern rtsBool major_gc;
157 extern gc_thread *gc_threads;
158 register gc_thread *gct __asm__("%rbx");
159 // extern gc_thread *gct; // this thread's gct TODO: make thread-local
161 extern StgClosure* static_objects;
162 extern StgClosure* scavenged_static_objects;
164 extern bdescr *mark_stack_bdescr;
165 extern StgPtr *mark_stack;
166 extern StgPtr *mark_sp;
167 extern StgPtr *mark_splim;
169 extern rtsBool mark_stack_overflowed;
170 extern bdescr *oldgen_scan_bd;
171 extern StgPtr oldgen_scan;
174 extern long scavd_copied;
177 extern SpinLock static_objects_sync;
181 extern nat mutlist_MUTVARS, mutlist_MUTARRS, mutlist_MVARS, mutlist_OTHERS;
184 StgClosure * isAlive(StgClosure *p);