// Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Goroutine preemption // // A goroutine can be preempted at any safe-point. Currently, there // are a few categories of safe-points: // // 1. A blocked safe-point occurs for the duration that a goroutine is // descheduled, blocked on synchronization, or in a system call. // // 2. Synchronous safe-points occur when a running goroutine checks // for a preemption request. // // 3. Asynchronous safe-points occur at any instruction in user code // where the goroutine can be safely paused and a conservative // stack and register scan can find stack roots. The runtime can // stop a goroutine at an async safe-point using a signal. // // At both blocked and synchronous safe-points, a goroutine's CPU // state is minimal and the garbage collector has complete information // about its entire stack. This makes it possible to deschedule a // goroutine with minimal space, and to precisely scan a goroutine's // stack. // // Synchronous safe-points are implemented by overloading the stack // bound check in function prologues. To preempt a goroutine at the // next synchronous safe-point, the runtime poisons the goroutine's // stack bound to a value that will cause the next stack bound check // to fail and enter the stack growth implementation, which will // detect that it was actually a preemption and redirect to preemption // handling. // // Preemption at asynchronous safe-points is implemented by suspending // the thread using an OS mechanism (e.g., signals) and inspecting its // state to determine if the goroutine was at an asynchronous // safe-point. Since the thread suspension itself is generally // asynchronous, it also checks if the running goroutine wants to be // preempted, since this could have changed. If all conditions are // satisfied, it adjusts the signal context to make it look like the // signaled thread just called asyncPreempt and resumes the thread. // asyncPreempt spills all registers and enters the scheduler. // // (An alternative would be to preempt in the signal handler itself. // This would let the OS save and restore the register state and the // runtime would only need to know how to extract potentially // pointer-containing registers from the signal context. However, this // would consume an M for every preempted G, and the scheduler itself // is not designed to run from a signal handler, as it tends to // allocate memory and start threads in the preemption path.) package runtime import ( "runtime/internal/atomic" ) type suspendGState struct { g *g // dead indicates the goroutine was not suspended because it // is dead. This goroutine could be reused after the dead // state was observed, so the caller must not assume that it // remains dead. dead bool // stopped indicates that this suspendG transitioned the G to // _Gwaiting via g.preemptStop and thus is responsible for // readying it when done. stopped bool } // suspendG suspends goroutine gp at a safe-point and returns the // state of the suspended goroutine. The caller gets read access to // the goroutine until it calls resumeG. // // It is safe for multiple callers to attempt to suspend the same // goroutine at the same time. The goroutine may execute between // subsequent successful suspend operations. The current // implementation grants exclusive access to the goroutine, and hence // multiple callers will serialize. However, the intent is to grant // shared read access, so please don't depend on exclusive access. // // This must be called from the system stack and the user goroutine on // the current M (if any) must be in a preemptible state. This // prevents deadlocks where two goroutines attempt to suspend each // other and both are in non-preemptible states. There are other ways // to resolve this deadlock, but this seems simplest. // // TODO(austin): What if we instead required this to be called from a // user goroutine? Then we could deschedule the goroutine while // waiting instead of blocking the thread. If two goroutines tried to // suspend each other, one of them would win and the other wouldn't // complete the suspend until it was resumed. We would have to be // careful that they couldn't actually queue up suspend for each other // and then both be suspended. This would also avoid the need for a // kernel context switch in the synchronous case because we could just // directly schedule the waiter. The context switch is unavoidable in // the signal case. // //go:systemstack func suspendG(gp *g) suspendGState { if mp := getg().m; mp.curg != nil && readgstatus(mp.curg) == _Grunning { // Since we're on the system stack of this M, the user // G is stuck at an unsafe point. If another goroutine // were to try to preempt m.curg, it could deadlock. throw("suspendG from non-preemptible goroutine") } // See https://golang.org/cl/21503 for justification of the yield delay. const yieldDelay = 10 * 1000 var nextYield int64 // Drive the goroutine to a preemption point. stopped := false var asyncM *m var asyncGen uint32 var nextPreemptM int64 for i := 0; ; i++ { switch s := readgstatus(gp); s { default: if s&_Gscan != 0 { // Someone else is suspending it. Wait // for them to finish. // // TODO: It would be nicer if we could // coalesce suspends. break } dumpgstatus(gp) throw("invalid g status") case _Gdead: // Nothing to suspend. // // preemptStop may need to be cleared, but // doing that here could race with goroutine // reuse. Instead, goexit0 clears it. return suspendGState{dead: true} case _Gcopystack: // The stack is being copied. We need to wait // until this is done. case _Gexitingsyscall: // This is a transient state. Try again. case _Gpreempted: // We (or someone else) suspended the G. Claim // ownership of it by transitioning it to // _Gwaiting. if !casGFromPreempted(gp, _Gpreempted, _Gwaiting) { break } // We stopped the G, so we have to ready it later. stopped = true s = _Gwaiting fallthrough case _Grunnable, _Gsyscall, _Gwaiting: // Claim goroutine by setting scan bit. // This may race with execution or readying of gp. // The scan bit keeps it from transition state. if !castogscanstatus(gp, s, s|_Gscan) { break } // Clear the preemption request. It's safe to // reset the stack guard because we hold the // _Gscan bit and thus own the stack. gp.preemptStop = false gp.preempt = false // The goroutine was already at a safe-point // and we've now locked that in. // // TODO: It would be much better if we didn't // leave it in _Gscan, but instead gently // prevented its scheduling until resumption. // Maybe we only use this to bump a suspended // count and the scheduler skips suspended // goroutines? That wouldn't be enough for // {_Gsyscall,_Gwaiting} -> _Grunning. Maybe // for all those transitions we need to check // suspended and deschedule? return suspendGState{g: gp, stopped: stopped} case _Grunning: // Optimization: if there is already a pending preemption request // (from the previous loop iteration), don't bother with the atomics. if asyncM != nil && gp.preemptStop && gp.preempt && asyncM == gp.m && atomic.Load(&asyncM.preemptGen) == asyncGen { break } // Temporarily block state transitions. if !castogscanstatus(gp, _Grunning, _Gscanrunning) { break } // Request synchronous preemption. gp.preemptStop = true gp.preempt = true // Prepare for asynchronous preemption. asyncM2 := gp.m asyncGen2 := atomic.Load(&asyncM2.preemptGen) needAsync := asyncM != asyncM2 || asyncGen != asyncGen2 asyncM = asyncM2 asyncGen = asyncGen2 casfrom_Gscanstatus(gp, _Gscanrunning, _Grunning) // Send asynchronous preemption. We do this // after CASing the G back to _Grunning // because preemptM may be synchronous and we // don't want to catch the G just spinning on // its status. if preemptMSupported && debug.asyncpreemptoff == 0 && needAsync { // Rate limit preemptM calls. This is // particularly important on Windows // where preemptM is actually // synchronous and the spin loop here // can lead to live-lock. now := nanotime() if now >= nextPreemptM { nextPreemptM = now + yieldDelay/2 preemptM(asyncM) } } } // TODO: Don't busy wait. This loop should really only // be a simple read/decide/CAS loop that only fails if // there's an active race. Once the CAS succeeds, we // should queue up the preemption (which will require // it to be reliable in the _Grunning case, not // best-effort) and then sleep until we're notified // that the goroutine is suspended. if i == 0 { nextYield = nanotime() + yieldDelay } if nanotime() < nextYield { procyield(10) } else { osyield() nextYield = nanotime() + yieldDelay/2 } } } // resumeG undoes the effects of suspendG, allowing the suspended // goroutine to continue from its current safe-point. func resumeG(state suspendGState) { if state.dead { // We didn't actually stop anything. return } gp := state.g switch s := readgstatus(gp); s { default: dumpgstatus(gp) throw("unexpected g status") case _Grunnable | _Gscan, _Gwaiting | _Gscan, _Gsyscall | _Gscan: casfrom_Gscanstatus(gp, s, s&^_Gscan) } if state.stopped { // We stopped it, so we need to re-schedule it. ready(gp, 0, true) } } // canPreemptM reports whether mp is in a state that is safe to preempt. // // It is nosplit because it has nosplit callers. // //go:nosplit func canPreemptM(mp *m) bool { return mp.locks == 0 && mp.mallocing == 0 && mp.preemptoff == "" && mp.p.ptr().status == _Prunning } //go:generate go run mkpreempt.go // asyncPreempt saves all user registers and calls asyncPreempt2. // // When stack scanning encounters an asyncPreempt frame, it scans that // frame and its parent frame conservatively. // // asyncPreempt is implemented in assembly. func asyncPreempt() //go:nosplit func asyncPreempt2() { gp := getg() gp.asyncSafePoint = true if gp.preemptStop { mcall(preemptPark) } else { mcall(gopreempt_m) } gp.asyncSafePoint = false } // wantAsyncPreempt returns whether an asynchronous preemption is // queued for gp. func wantAsyncPreempt(gp *g) bool { // Check both the G and the P. return (gp.preempt || gp.m.p != 0 && gp.m.p.ptr().preempt) && readgstatus(gp)&^_Gscan == _Grunning } // isAsyncSafePoint reports whether gp at instruction PC is an // asynchronous safe point. This indicates that: // // 1. It's safe to suspend gp and conservatively scan its stack and // registers. There are no potentially hidden pointer values and it's // not in the middle of an atomic sequence like a write barrier. // // 2. gp has enough stack space to inject the asyncPreempt call. // // 3. It's generally safe to interact with the runtime, even if we're // in a signal handler stopped here. For example, there are no runtime // locks held, so acquiring a runtime lock won't self-deadlock. func isAsyncSafePoint(gp *g, pc uintptr) bool { mp := gp.m // Only user Gs can have safe-points. We check this first // because it's extremely common that we'll catch mp in the // scheduler processing this G preemption. if mp.curg != gp { return false } // Check M state. if mp.p == 0 || !canPreemptM(mp) { return false } // Check if PC is an unsafe-point. f := FuncForPC(pc) if f == nil { // Not Go code. return false } name := f.Name() if hasPrefix(name, "runtime.") || hasPrefix(name, "runtime..z2finternal..z2f") || hasPrefix(name, "reflect.") { // For now we never async preempt the runtime or // anything closely tied to the runtime. Known issues // include: various points in the scheduler ("don't // preempt between here and here"), much of the defer // implementation (untyped info on stack), bulk write // barriers (write barrier check), // reflect.{makeFuncStub,methodValueCall}. // // TODO(austin): We should improve this, or opt things // in incrementally. return false } return true }