Currently there are two main consumers of memstats.heap_alloc:
updatememstats (aka ReadMemStats) and shouldtriggergc.
updatememstats recomputes heap_alloc from the ground up, so we don't
need to keep heap_alloc up to date for it. shouldtriggergc wants to
know how many bytes were marked by the previous GC plus how many bytes
have been allocated since then, but this *isn't* what heap_alloc
tracks. heap_alloc also includes objects that are not marked and
haven't yet been swept.
Introduce a new memstat called heap_live that actually tracks what
shouldtriggergc wants to know and stop keeping heap_alloc up to date.
Unlike heap_alloc, heap_live follows a simple sawtooth that drops
during each mark termination and increases monotonically between GCs.
heap_alloc, on the other hand, has much more complicated behavior: it
may drop during sweep termination, slowly decreases from background
sweeping between GCs, is roughly unaffected by allocation as long as
there are unswept spans (because we sweep and allocate at the same
rate), and may go up after background sweeping is done depending on
the GC trigger.
heap_live simplifies computing next_gc and using it to figure out when
to trigger garbage collection. Currently, we guess next_gc at the end
of a cycle and update it as we sweep and get a better idea of how much
heap was marked. Now, since we're directly tracking how much heap is
marked, we can directly compute next_gc.
This also corrects bugs that could cause us to trigger GC early.
Currently, in any case where sweep termination actually finds spans to
sweep, heap_alloc is an overestimation of live heap, so we'll trigger
GC too early. heap_live, on the other hand, is unaffected by sweeping.
Change-Id: I1f96807b6ed60d4156e8173a8e68745ffc742388
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8389
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Channels and sync.Mutex'es allow another goroutine to acquire resource
ahead of an unblocked goroutine. This is good for performance, but
leads to futile wakeups (the unblocked goroutine needs to block again).
Futile wakeups caused user confusion during the very first evaluation
of tracing functionality on a real server (a goroutine as if acquires a mutex
in a loop, while there is no loop in user code).
This change detects futile wakeups on channels and emits a special event
to denote the fact. Later parser finds entire wakeup sequences
(unblock->start->block) and removes them.
sync.Mutex will be supported in a separate change.
Change-Id: Iaaaee9d5c0921afc62b449a97447445030ac19d3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7380
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Augment ProcStart events with OS thread id.
This helps in scheduler locality analysis.
Change-Id: I93fea75d3072cf68de66110d0b59d07101badcb5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7302
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Stip uninteresting bottom and top frames from trace stacks.
This makes both binary and json trace files smaller,
and also makes stacks shorter and more readable in the viewer.
Change-Id: Ib9c80ccc280504f0e235f867f53f1d2652c41583
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5523
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
This makes Go's CPU profiling code somewhat more idiomatic; e.g.,
using := instead of forward declaring variables, using "int" for
element counts instead of "uintptr", and slices instead of C-style
pointer+length. This makes the code easier to read and eliminates a
lot of type conversion clutter.
Additionally, in sigprof we can collect just maxCPUProfStack stack
frames, as cpuprof won't use more than that anyway.
Change-Id: I0235b5ae552191bcbb453b14add6d8c01381bd06
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6072
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Trace command allows to visualize and analyze traces.
Run as:
$ go tool trace binary trace.file
The commands opens web browser with the main page,
which contains links for trace visualization,
blocking profiler, network IO profiler and per-goroutine
traces.
Also move trace parser from runtime/pprof/trace_parser_test.go
to internal/trace/parser.go, so that it can be shared between
tests and the command.
Change-Id: Ic97ed59ad6e4c7e1dc9eca5e979701a2b4aed7cf
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3601
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Currently race detector produces the following reports on pprof tests:
WARNING: DATA RACE
Read by goroutine 4:
runtime/pprof_test.TestTraceStartStop()
src/runtime/pprof/trace_test.go:38 +0x1da
testing.tRunner()
src/testing/testing.go:448 +0x13a
Previous write by goroutine 5:
bytes.(*Buffer).grow()
src/bytes/buffer.go:102 +0x190
bytes.(*Buffer).Write()
src/bytes/buffer.go:127 +0x75
runtime/pprof.func·002()
src/runtime/pprof/pprof.go:633 +0xae
Trace writer goroutine synchronizes with StopTrace
using trace.shutdownSema runtime semaphore.
But race detector does not see that synchronization
and so produces false reports.
Teach race detector about the synchronization.
Change-Id: I1219817325d4e16b423f29a0cbee94c929793881
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3746
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
m.gcing has become overloaded to mean "don't preempt this g" in
general. Once the garbage collector is preemptible, the one thing it
*won't* mean is that we're in the garbage collector.
So, rename gcing to "preemptoff" and make it a string giving a reason
that preemption is disabled. gcing was never set to anything but 0 or
1, so we don't have to worry about there being a stack of reasons.
Change-Id: I4337c29e8e942e7aa4f106fc29597e1b5de4ef46
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3660
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
