1 ;;;; garbage collection and allocation-related code
3 ;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
6 ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
7 ;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the
8 ;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is
9 ;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS
10 ;;;; files for more information.
12 (in-package "SB!KERNEL")
14 ;;;; DYNAMIC-USAGE and friends
17 (declaim (inline dynamic-usage
))
19 (defun dynamic-usage ()
20 (extern-alien "bytes_allocated" os-vm-size-t
))
22 (defun dynamic-usage ()
24 (- (sap-int (sb!c
::dynamic-space-free-pointer
))
25 (current-dynamic-space-start))))
27 (defun static-space-usage ()
28 (- (ash sb
!vm
:*static-space-free-pointer
* sb
!vm
:n-fixnum-tag-bits
)
29 sb
!vm
:static-space-start
))
31 (defun read-only-space-usage ()
32 (- (ash sb
!vm
::*read-only-space-free-pointer
* sb
!vm
:n-fixnum-tag-bits
)
33 sb
!vm
:read-only-space-start
))
35 (defun control-stack-usage ()
36 #!-stack-grows-downward-not-upward
37 (- (sap-int (sb!c
::control-stack-pointer-sap
))
38 (sap-int (sb!di
::descriptor-sap sb
!vm
:*control-stack-start
*)))
39 #!+stack-grows-downward-not-upward
40 (- (sap-int (sb!di
::descriptor-sap sb
!vm
:*control-stack-end
*))
41 (sap-int (sb!c
::control-stack-pointer-sap
))))
43 (defun binding-stack-usage ()
44 (- (sap-int (sb!c
::binding-stack-pointer-sap
))
45 (sap-int (sb!di
::descriptor-sap sb
!vm
:*binding-stack-start
*))))
49 (defun room-minimal-info ()
50 (format t
"Dynamic space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (dynamic-usage))
51 (format t
"Read-only space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (read-only-space-usage))
52 (format t
"Static space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (static-space-usage))
53 (format t
"Control stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (control-stack-usage))
54 (format t
"Binding stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (binding-stack-usage))
57 "Control and binding stack usage is for the current thread only.~%")
58 (format t
"Garbage collection is currently ~:[enabled~;DISABLED~].~%"
61 (defun room-intermediate-info ()
63 (sb!vm
:memory-usage
:count-spaces
'(:dynamic
)
68 (defun room-maximal-info ()
69 ;; FIXME: SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE calls suppressed until bug 344 is fixed
70 (room-intermediate-info)
71 ;; old way, could be restored when bug 344 fixed:
72 ;;x (room-minimal-info)
73 ;;x (sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:static :dynamic))
74 ;;x (sb!vm:instance-usage :dynamic :top-n 10)
75 ;;x (sb!vm:instance-usage :static :top-n 10)
78 (defun room (&optional
(verbosity :default
))
79 "Print to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* information about the state of internal
80 storage and its management. The optional argument controls the
81 verbosity of output. If it is T, ROOM prints out a maximal amount of
82 information. If it is NIL, ROOM prints out a minimal amount of
83 information. If it is :DEFAULT or it is not supplied, ROOM prints out
84 an intermediate amount of information."
92 (room-intermediate-info)))
97 ;;; the total number of bytes freed so far (including any freeing
98 ;;; which goes on in PURIFY)
100 ;;; (We save this so that we can calculate the total number of bytes
101 ;;; ever allocated by adding this to the number of bytes currently
102 ;;; allocated and never freed.)
103 (declaim (type unsigned-byte
*n-bytes-freed-or-purified
*))
104 (defvar *n-bytes-freed-or-purified
* 0)
106 (setq *gc-inhibit
* nil
)
108 (setf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified
* 0
111 (declaim (ftype (sfunction () unsigned-byte
) get-bytes-consed
))
112 (defun get-bytes-consed ()
113 "Return the number of bytes consed since the program began. Typically
114 this result will be a consed bignum, so if you have an application (e.g.
115 profiling) which can't tolerate the overhead of consing bignums, you'll
116 probably want either to hack in at a lower level (as the code in the
117 SB-PROFILE package does), or to design a more microefficient interface
118 and submit it as a patch."
120 *n-bytes-freed-or-purified
*))
124 (!defvar
*after-gc-hooks
* nil
125 "Called after each garbage collection, except for garbage collections
126 triggered during thread exits. In a multithreaded environment these hooks may
132 (define-alien-routine collect-garbage int
133 (#!+gencgc last-gen
#!-gencgc ignore int
))
137 (define-alien-routine gc-stop-the-world void
)
138 (define-alien-routine gc-start-the-world void
))
141 (defun gc-stop-the-world ())
142 (defun gc-start-the-world ()))
146 (define-alien-variable ("gc_logfile" %gc-logfile
) (* char
))
147 (defun (setf gc-logfile
) (pathname)
148 (let ((new (when pathname
150 (native-namestring (translate-logical-pathname pathname
)
153 (setf %gc-logfile new
)
158 "Return the pathname used to log garbage collections. Can be SETF.
159 Default is NIL, meaning collections are not logged. If non-null, the
160 designated file is opened before and after each collection, and generation
161 statistics are appended to it."
162 (let ((val (cast %gc-logfile c-string
)))
164 (native-pathname val
)))))
166 (declaim (inline dynamic-space-size
))
167 (defun dynamic-space-size ()
168 "Size of the dynamic space in bytes."
169 (extern-alien "dynamic_space_size" os-vm-size-t
))
173 ;;; SUB-GC does a garbage collection. This is called from three places:
174 ;;; (1) The C runtime will call here when it detects that we've consed
175 ;;; enough to exceed the gc trigger threshold. This is done in
176 ;;; alloc() for gencgc or interrupt_maybe_gc() for cheneygc
177 ;;; (2) The user may request a collection using GC, below
178 ;;; (3) At the end of a WITHOUT-GCING section, we are called if
179 ;;; *NEED-TO-COLLECT-GARBAGE* is true
181 ;;; This is different from the behaviour in 0.7 and earlier: it no
182 ;;; longer decides whether to GC based on thresholds. If you call
183 ;;; SUB-GC you will definitely get a GC either now or when the
184 ;;; WITHOUT-GCING is over
186 ;;; For GENCGC all generations < GEN will be GC'ed.
188 (defvar *already-in-gc
* (sb!thread
:make-mutex
:name
"GC lock"))
190 (defun sub-gc (&key
(gen 0))
192 (setf *gc-pending
* t
)
195 (flet ((perform-gc ()
196 ;; Called from WITHOUT-GCING and WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
197 ;; after the world has been stopped, but it's an
198 ;; awkwardly long piece of code to nest so deeply.
199 (let ((old-usage (dynamic-usage))
201 (start-time (get-internal-run-time)))
202 (collect-garbage gen
)
203 (setf *gc-epoch
* (cons nil nil
))
204 (let ((run-time (- (get-internal-run-time) start-time
)))
205 ;; KLUDGE: Sometimes we see the second getrusage() call
206 ;; return a smaller value than the first, which can
207 ;; lead to *GC-RUN-TIME* to going negative, which in
208 ;; turn is a type-error.
209 (when (plusp run-time
)
210 (incf *gc-run-time
* run-time
)))
212 (setf *stop-for-gc-pending
* nil
)
213 (setf *gc-pending
* nil
214 new-usage
(dynamic-usage))
216 (assert (not *stop-for-gc-pending
*))
218 ;; In a multithreaded environment the other threads
219 ;; will see *n-b-f-o-p* change a little late, but
221 ;; N.B. the outer without-gcing prevents this
222 ;; function from being entered, so no need for
224 (let ((freed (- old-usage new-usage
)))
225 ;; GENCGC occasionally reports negative here, but
226 ;; the current belief is that it is part of the
227 ;; normal order of things and not a bug.
229 (incf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified
* freed
))))))
230 (declare (inline perform-gc
))
231 ;; Let's make sure we're not interrupted and that none of
232 ;; the deadline or deadlock detection stuff triggers.
234 (sb!thread
::without-thread-waiting-for
235 (:already-without-interrupts t
)
236 (let ((sb!impl
::*deadline
* nil
)
237 (sb!impl
::*deadline-seconds
* nil
)
240 ;; GCing must be done without-gcing to avoid
241 ;; recursive GC... but we can't block on
242 ;; *already-in-gc* inside without-gcing: that would
245 ;; Try to grab that mutex. On acquisition, stop
246 ;; the world from with the mutex held, and then
247 ;; execute the remainder of the GC: stopping the
248 ;; world with interrupts disabled is the mother of
249 ;; all critical sections.
250 (cond ((sb!thread
:with-mutex
(*already-in-gc
* :wait-p nil
)
251 (unsafe-clear-roots gen
)
256 ;; Return, but leave *gc-pending* as is: we
257 ;; did allocate a tiny bit after GCing. In
258 ;; theory, this could lead to a long chain
259 ;; of tail-recursive (but not in explicit
260 ;; tail position) GCs, but that doesn't
261 ;; seem likely to happen too often... And
262 ;; the old code already suffered from this
266 ;; Some other thread is trying to GC. Clear
267 ;; *gc-pending* (we already know we want a
268 ;; GC to happen) and either let
269 ;; without-gcing figure out that the world
270 ;; is stopping, or try again.
271 (setf *gc-pending
* nil
))))
272 ;; we just wanted a minor GC, and a GC has
273 ;; occurred. Leave, but don't execute after-gc
276 ;; Return a 0 for easy ternary logic in the C
278 (when (and (eql gen
0)
279 (neq epoch
*gc-pending
*))
283 ;; Outside the mutex, interrupts may be enabled: these may cause
284 ;; another GC. FIXME: it can potentially exceed maximum interrupt
285 ;; nesting by triggering GCs.
287 ;; Can that be avoided by having the finalizers and hooks run only
288 ;; from the outermost SUB-GC? If the nested GCs happen in interrupt
289 ;; handlers that's not enough.
291 ;; KLUDGE: Don't run the hooks in GC's if:
293 ;; A) this thread is dying, so that user-code never runs with
294 ;; (thread-alive-p *current-thread*) => nil
296 ;; B) interrupts are disabled somewhere up the call chain since we
297 ;; don't want to run user code in such a case.
299 ;; The long-term solution will be to keep a separate thread for
300 ;; finalizers and after-gc hooks.
301 (when (sb!thread
:thread-alive-p sb
!thread
:*current-thread
*)
302 (when *allow-with-interrupts
*
303 (sb!thread
::without-thread-waiting-for
()
305 (run-pending-finalizers)
306 (call-hooks "after-GC" *after-gc-hooks
* :on-error
:warn
))))))
308 ;;; This is the user-advertised garbage collection function.
309 (defun gc (&key
(full nil
) (gen 0) &allow-other-keys
)
311 "Initiate a garbage collection.
313 The default is to initiate a nursery collection, which may in turn
314 trigger a collection of one or more older generations as well. If FULL
315 is true, all generations are collected. If GEN is provided, it can be
316 used to specify the oldest generation guaranteed to be collected.
318 On CheneyGC platforms arguments FULL and GEN take no effect: a full
319 collection is always performed."
321 "Initiate a garbage collection.
323 The collection is always a full collection.
325 Arguments FULL and GEN can be used for compatibility with GENCGC
326 platforms: there the default is to initiate a nursery collection,
327 which may in turn trigger a collection of one or more older
328 generations as well. If FULL is true, all generations are collected.
329 If GEN is provided, it can be used to specify the oldest generation
330 guaranteed to be collected."
331 #!-gencgc
(declare (ignore full
))
332 (let (#!+gencgc
(gen (if full sb
!vm
:+pseudo-static-generation
+ gen
)))
333 (when (eq t
(sub-gc :gen gen
))
336 (define-alien-routine scrub-control-stack void
)
338 (defun unsafe-clear-roots (gen)
339 #!-gencgc
(declare (ignore gen
))
340 ;; KLUDGE: Do things in an attempt to get rid of extra roots. Unsafe
341 ;; as having these cons more than we have space left leads to huge
343 (scrub-control-stack)
344 ;; Power cache of the bignum printer: drops overly large bignums and
345 ;; removes duplicate entries.
347 ;; Clear caches depending on the generation being collected.
350 ;; Drop strings because the hash is pointer-hash
351 ;; but there is no automatic cache rehashing after GC.
352 (sb!format
::tokenize-control-string-cache-clear
))
354 (sb!format
::tokenize-control-string-cache-clear
)
355 (ctype-of-cache-clear))
357 (drop-all-hash-caches)))
359 (drop-all-hash-caches))
361 ;;;; auxiliary functions
363 (defun bytes-consed-between-gcs ()
364 "The amount of memory that will be allocated before the next garbage
365 collection is initiated. This can be set with SETF.
367 On GENCGC platforms this is the nursery size, and defaults to 5% of dynamic
370 Note: currently changes to this value are lost when saving core."
371 (extern-alien "bytes_consed_between_gcs" os-vm-size-t
))
373 (defun (setf bytes-consed-between-gcs
) (val)
374 (declare (type index val
))
375 (setf (extern-alien "bytes_consed_between_gcs" os-vm-size-t
)
378 (declaim (inline maybe-handle-pending-gc
))
379 (defun maybe-handle-pending-gc ()
380 (when (and (not *gc-inhibit
*)
381 (or #!+sb-thread
*stop-for-gc-pending
*
383 (sb!unix
::receive-pending-interrupt
)))
385 ;;;; GENCGC specifics
387 ;;;; For documentation convenience, these have stubs on non-GENCGC platforms
390 (deftype generation-index
()
391 '(integer 0 #.sb
!vm
:+pseudo-static-generation
+))
393 ;;; FIXME: GENERATION (and PAGE, as seen in room.lisp) should probably be
394 ;;; defined in Lisp, and written to header files by genesis, instead of this
395 ;;; OAOOMiness -- this duplicates the struct definition in gencgc.c.
397 (define-alien-type generation
399 (alloc-start-page page-index-t
)
400 (alloc-unboxed-start-page page-index-t
)
401 (alloc-large-start-page page-index-t
)
402 (alloc-large-unboxed-start-page page-index-t
)
403 (bytes-allocated os-vm-size-t
)
404 (gc-trigger os-vm-size-t
)
405 (bytes-consed-between-gcs os-vm-size-t
)
407 (number-of-gcs-before-promotion int
)
408 (cum-sum-bytes-allocated os-vm-size-t
)
409 (minimum-age-before-gc double
)))
412 (define-alien-variable generations
413 (array generation
#.
(1+ sb
!vm
:+pseudo-static-generation
+)))
415 (macrolet ((def (slot doc
&optional setfp
)
417 (defun ,(symbolicate "GENERATION-" slot
) (generation)
420 (declare (generation-index generation
))
422 (declare (ignore generation
))
424 (error "~S is a GENCGC only function and unavailable in this build"
427 (slot (deref generations generation
) ',slot
))
429 `((defun (setf ,(symbolicate "GENERATION-" slot
)) (value generation
)
431 (declare (generation-index generation
))
433 (declare (ignore value generation
))
435 (error "(SETF ~S) is a GENCGC only function and unavailable in this build"
438 (setf (slot (deref generations generation
) ',slot
) value
)))))))
439 (def bytes-consed-between-gcs
440 "Number of bytes that can be allocated to GENERATION before that
441 generation is considered for garbage collection. This value is meaningless for
442 generation 0 (the nursery): see BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS instead. Default is
443 5% of the dynamic space size divided by the number of non-nursery generations.
444 Can be assigned to using SETF. Available on GENCGC platforms only.
446 Experimental: interface subject to change."
448 (def minimum-age-before-gc
449 "Minimum average age of objects allocated to GENERATION before that
450 generation is may be garbage collected. Default is 0.75. See also
451 GENERATION-AVERAGE-AGE. Can be assigned to using SETF. Available on GENCGC
454 Experimental: interface subject to change."
456 (def number-of-gcs-before-promotion
457 "Number of times garbage collection is done on GENERATION before
458 automatic promotion to the next generation is triggered. Default is 1. Can be
459 assigned to using SETF. Available on GENCGC platforms only.
461 Experimental: interface subject to change."
464 "Number of bytes allocated to GENERATION currently. Available on GENCGC
467 Experimental: interface subject to change.")
469 "Number of times garbage collection has been done on GENERATION without
470 promotion. Available on GENCGC platforms only.
472 Experimental: interface subject to change."))
473 (defun generation-average-age (generation)
474 "Average age of memory allocated to GENERATION: average number of times
475 objects allocated to the generation have seen younger objects promoted to it.
476 Available on GENCGC platforms only.
478 Experimental: interface subject to change."
480 (declare (generation-index generation
))
481 #!-gencgc
(declare (ignore generation
))
483 (error "~S is a GENCGC only function and unavailable in this build."
484 'generation-average-age
)
486 (alien-funcall (extern-alien "generation_average_age"
487 (function double generation-index-t
))