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
16 (declaim (special sb!vm:*read-only-space-free-pointer*
17 sb!vm:*static-space-free-pointer*))
19 (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :execute)
20 (sb!xc:defmacro def-c-var-frob (lisp-fun c-var-name)
22 #!-sb-fluid (declaim (inline ,lisp-fun))
24 (sb!alien:extern-alien ,c-var-name (sb!alien:unsigned 32))))))
28 ;; This is called once per PROFILEd function call, so it's worth a
29 ;; little possible space cost to reduce its time cost.
31 (declaim (inline current-dynamic-space-start))
32 (def-c-var-frob current-dynamic-space-start "current_dynamic_space"))
35 (declaim (inline dynamic-usage)) ; to reduce PROFILEd call overhead
37 (def-c-var-frob dynamic-usage "bytes_allocated")
39 (defun dynamic-usage ()
40 (the (unsigned-byte 32)
41 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::dynamic-space-free-pointer))
42 (current-dynamic-space-start))))
44 (defun static-space-usage ()
45 (- (* sb!vm:*static-space-free-pointer* sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
46 sb!vm:static-space-start))
48 (defun read-only-space-usage ()
49 (- (* sb!vm::*read-only-space-free-pointer* sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
50 sb!vm:read-only-space-start))
52 (defun control-stack-usage ()
53 #!-stack-grows-downward-not-upward
54 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))
55 sb!vm:control-stack-start)
56 #!+stack-grows-downward-not-upward
57 (- sb!vm:control-stack-end
58 (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))))
60 (defun binding-stack-usage ()
61 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::binding-stack-pointer-sap))
62 sb!vm:binding-stack-start))
66 (defun room-minimal-info ()
67 (format t "Dynamic space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (dynamic-usage))
68 (format t "Read-only space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (read-only-space-usage))
69 (format t "Static space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (static-space-usage))
70 (format t "Control stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (control-stack-usage))
71 (format t "Binding stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (binding-stack-usage))
72 (format t "Garbage collection is currently ~:[enabled~;DISABLED~].~%"
75 (defun room-intermediate-info ()
77 (sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:dynamic)
82 (defun room-maximal-info ()
84 (sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:static :dynamic))
85 (sb!vm:instance-usage :dynamic :top-n 10)
86 (sb!vm:instance-usage :static :top-n 10))
88 (defun room (&optional (verbosity :default))
90 "Print to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* information about the state of internal
91 storage and its management. The optional argument controls the
92 verbosity of output. If it is T, ROOM prints out a maximal amount of
93 information. If it is NIL, ROOM prints out a minimal amount of
94 information. If it is :DEFAULT or it is not supplied, ROOM prints out
95 an intermediate amount of information."
103 (room-intermediate-info)))
106 ;;;; GET-BYTES-CONSED
108 ;;; the total number of bytes freed so far (including any freeing
109 ;;; which goes on in PURIFY)
111 ;;; (We save this so that we can calculate the total number of bytes
112 ;;; ever allocated by adding this to the number of bytes currently
113 ;;; allocated and never freed.)
114 (declaim (type unsigned-byte *n-bytes-freed-or-purified*))
115 (defvar *n-bytes-freed-or-purified* 0)
117 (setf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified* 0))
118 ;; KLUDGE: It's probably not quite safely right either to do
119 ;; this in *BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* (since consing, or even
120 ;; worse, something which depended on (GET-BYTES-CONSED), might
121 ;; happen after that) or in *AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS*. But
122 ;; it's probably not a big problem, and there seems to be no
123 ;; other obvious time to do it. -- WHN 2001-07-30
124 *after-save-initializations*)
126 (declaim (ftype (function () unsigned-byte) get-bytes-consed))
127 (defun get-bytes-consed ()
129 "Return the number of bytes consed since the program began. Typically
130 this result will be a consed bignum, so if you have an application (e.g.
131 profiling) which can't tolerate the overhead of consing bignums, you'll
132 probably want either to hack in at a lower level (as the code in the
133 SB-PROFILE package does), or to design a more microefficient interface
134 and submit it as a patch."
136 *n-bytes-freed-or-purified*))
138 ;;;; variables and constants
140 ;;; the minimum amount of dynamic space which must be consed before a
141 ;;; GC will be triggered
143 ;;; Unlike CMU CL, we don't export this variable. (There's no need to,
144 ;;; since our BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS function is SETFable.)
145 (defvar *bytes-consed-between-gcs*
146 #!+gencgc (* 4 (expt 10 6))
147 ;; Stop-and-copy GC is really really slow when used too often. CSR
148 ;; reported that even on his old 64 Mb SPARC, 20 Mb is much faster
149 ;; than 4 Mb when rebuilding SBCL ca. 0.7.1. For modern machines
150 ;; with >> 128 Mb memory, the optimum could be significantly more
151 ;; than this, but at least 20 Mb should be better than 4 Mb.
152 #!-gencgc (* 20 (expt 10 6)))
153 (declaim (type index *bytes-consed-between-gcs*))
157 (defvar *before-gc-hooks* nil ; actually initialized in cold init
159 "A list of functions that are called before garbage collection occurs.
160 The functions should take no arguments.")
162 (defvar *after-gc-hooks* nil ; actually initialized in cold init
164 "A list of functions that are called after garbage collection occurs.
165 The functions should take no arguments.")
167 (defvar *gc-notify-stream* nil ; (actually initialized in cold init)
169 "When non-NIL, this must be a STREAM; and the functions bound to
170 *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE* and *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER* are called with the
171 STREAM value before and after a garbage collection occurs
174 (defvar *gc-run-time* 0
176 "the total CPU time spent doing garbage collection (as reported by
177 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME)")
178 (declaim (type index *gc-run-time*))
180 ;;; a limit to help catch programs which allocate too much memory,
181 ;;; since a hard heap overflow is so hard to recover from
183 ;;; FIXME: Like *GC-TRIGGER*, this variable (1) should probably be
184 ;;; denominated in a larger unit than bytes and (2) should probably be
185 ;;; renamed so that it's clear from the name what unit it's
187 (declaim (type (or unsigned-byte null) *soft-heap-limit*))
188 (defvar *soft-heap-limit*
189 ;; As long as *GC-TRIGGER* is DECLAIMed as INDEX, we know that
190 ;; MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM is a hard limit on how much memory can be
191 ;; allocated. (Not necessarily *the* hard limit, which is fairly
192 ;; likely something like a Unix per-process limit that we don't know
193 ;; about, but a hard limit anyway.) And this gives us a reasonable
194 ;; conservative default for the soft limit...
195 (- most-positive-fixnum
196 *bytes-consed-between-gcs*))
198 ;;;; The following specials are used to control when garbage
199 ;;;; collection occurs.
201 ;;; When the dynamic usage increases beyond this amount, the system
202 ;;; notes that a garbage collection needs to occur by setting
203 ;;; *NEED-TO-COLLECT-GARBAGE* to T. It starts out as NIL meaning
204 ;;; nobody has figured out what it should be yet.
206 ;;; FIXME: *GC-TRIGGER* seems to be denominated in bytes, not words.
207 ;;; And limiting it to INDEX is fairly reasonable in order to avoid
208 ;;; bignum arithmetic on every allocation, and to minimize the need
209 ;;; for thought about weird gotchas of the GC-control mechanism itself
210 ;;; consing as it operates. But as of sbcl-0.7.5, 512Mbytes of memory
211 ;;; costs $54.95 at Fry's in Dallas but cheap consumer 64-bit machines
212 ;;; are still over the horizon, so gratuitously limiting our heap size
213 ;;; to FIXNUM bytes seems fairly stupid. It'd be reasonable to
214 ;;; (1) allow arbitrary UNSIGNED-BYTE values of *GC-TRIGGER*, or
215 ;;; (2) redenominate this variable in words instead of bytes, postponing
216 ;;; the problem to heaps which exceed 50% of the machine's address
218 ;;; (3) redemoninate this variable in CONS-sized two-word units,
219 ;;; allowing it to cover the entire memory space at the price of
220 ;;; possible loss of clarity.
221 ;;; (And whatever is done, it'd also be good to rename the variable so
222 ;;; that it's clear what unit it's denominated in.)
223 (declaim (type (or index null) *gc-trigger*))
224 (defvar *gc-trigger* nil)
226 ;;; When >0, inhibits garbage collection.
227 (defvar *gc-inhibit*) ; initialized in cold init
229 ;;; This flag is used to prevent recursive entry into the garbage
231 (defvar *already-maybe-gcing*) ; initialized in cold init
233 ;;; When T, indicates that the dynamic usage has exceeded the value
235 (defvar *need-to-collect-garbage* nil) ; initialized in cold init
237 (defun default-gc-notify-before (notify-stream bytes-in-use)
238 (declare (type stream notify-stream))
241 "~&; GC is beginning with ~:D bytes in use at internal runtime ~:D.~%"
243 (get-internal-run-time))
244 (finish-output notify-stream))
245 (defparameter *gc-notify-before* #'default-gc-notify-before
247 "The function bound to this variable is invoked before GC'ing (unless
248 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* is NIL) with the value of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* and
249 current amount of dynamic usage (in bytes). It should notify the
250 user that the system is going to GC.")
252 (defun default-gc-notify-after (notify-stream
256 (declare (type stream notify-stream))
257 (format notify-stream
258 "~&; GC has finished with ~:D bytes in use (~:D bytes freed)~@
259 ; at internal runtime ~:D. The new GC trigger is ~:D bytes.~%"
262 (get-internal-run-time)
264 (finish-output notify-stream))
265 (defparameter *gc-notify-after* #'default-gc-notify-after
267 "The function bound to this variable is invoked after GC'ing with the
268 value of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, the amount of dynamic usage (in bytes) now
269 free, the number of bytes freed by the GC, and the new GC trigger
270 threshold; or if *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* is NIL, it's not invoked. The
271 function should notify the user that the system has finished GC'ing.")
275 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine collect-garbage sb!alien:int
276 (#!+gencgc last-gen #!-gencgc ignore sb!alien:int))
278 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine set-auto-gc-trigger sb!alien:void
279 (dynamic-usage sb!alien:unsigned-long))
281 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine clear-auto-gc-trigger sb!alien:void)
284 (def-c-var-frob gc-thread-pid "gc_thread_pid")
286 (defun other-thread-collect-garbage (gen)
287 (setf (sb!alien:extern-alien "maybe_gc_pending" (sb!alien:unsigned 32))
289 (sb!unix:unix-kill (gc-thread-pid) :SIGALRM))
291 ;;; This variable contains the function that does the real GC. This is
292 ;;; for low-level GC experimentation. Do not touch it if you do not
293 ;;; know what you are doing.
294 (defvar *internal-gc*
295 #!+sb-thread #'other-thread-collect-garbage
296 #!-sb-thread #'collect-garbage)
301 ;;; This is used to carefully invoke hooks.
302 (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :execute)
303 (sb!xc:defmacro carefully-funcall (function &rest args)
304 `(handler-case (funcall ,function ,@args)
306 (warn "(FUNCALL ~S~{ ~S~}) lost:~%~A" ',function ',args cond)
309 ;;; SUB-GC decides when and if to do a garbage collection. The FORCE-P
310 ;;; flags controls whether a GC should occur even if the dynamic usage
311 ;;; is not greater than *GC-TRIGGER*.
313 ;;; For GENCGC all generations < GEN will be GC'ed.
315 ;;; XXX need (1) some kind of locking to ensure that only one thread
316 ;;; at a time is trying to GC, (2) to look at all these specials and
317 ;;; work out how much of this "do we really need to GC now?" stuff is
318 ;;; actually necessary: I think we actually end up GCing every time we
321 (defun sub-gc (&key force-p (gen 0))
322 (/show0 "entering SUB-GC")
323 (unless *already-maybe-gcing*
324 (let* ((*already-maybe-gcing* t)
325 (start-time (get-internal-run-time))
326 (pre-gc-dynamic-usage (dynamic-usage))
327 ;; Currently we only check *SOFT-HEAP-LIMIT* at GC time,
328 ;; not for every allocation. That makes it cheap to do,
329 ;; even if it is a little ugly.
330 (soft-heap-limit-exceeded? (and *soft-heap-limit*
331 (> pre-gc-dynamic-usage
333 (*soft-heap-limit* (if soft-heap-limit-exceeded?
334 (+ pre-gc-dynamic-usage
335 *bytes-consed-between-gcs*)
337 (when soft-heap-limit-exceeded?
338 (cerror "Continue with GC."
339 "soft heap limit exceeded (temporary new limit=~W)"
341 (when (and *gc-trigger* (> pre-gc-dynamic-usage *gc-trigger*))
342 (setf *need-to-collect-garbage* t))
344 (and *need-to-collect-garbage* (zerop *gc-inhibit*)))
345 ;; KLUDGE: Wow, we really mask interrupts all the time we're
346 ;; collecting garbage? That seems like a long time.. -- WHN 19991129
348 ;; FIXME: We probably shouldn't do this evil thing to
349 ;; *STANDARD-OUTPUT* in a binding which is wrapped around
350 ;; calls to user-settable GC hook functions.
351 (let ((*standard-output* *terminal-io*))
352 (when *gc-notify-stream*
353 (if (streamp *gc-notify-stream*)
354 (carefully-funcall *gc-notify-before*
356 pre-gc-dynamic-usage)
358 "*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* is set, but not a STREAM -- ignored.")))
359 (dolist (hook *before-gc-hooks*)
360 (carefully-funcall hook))
362 (clear-auto-gc-trigger))
363 (let* (;; We do DYNAMIC-USAGE once more here in order to
364 ;; get a more accurate measurement of the space
365 ;; actually freed, since the messing around, e.g.
366 ;; GC-notify stuff, since the DYNAMIC-USAGE which
367 ;; triggered GC could've done a fair amount of
369 (pre-internal-gc-dynamic-usage (dynamic-usage))
370 (ignore-me (funcall *internal-gc* gen))
371 (post-gc-dynamic-usage (dynamic-usage))
372 (n-bytes-freed (- pre-internal-gc-dynamic-usage
373 post-gc-dynamic-usage))
374 ;; In sbcl-0.6.12.39, the raw N-BYTES-FREED from
375 ;; GENCGC could sometimes be substantially negative
376 ;; (e.g. -5872). I haven't looked into what causes
377 ;; that, but I suspect it has to do with
378 ;; fluctuating inefficiency in the way that the
379 ;; GENCGC packs things into page boundaries.
380 ;; Bumping the raw result up to 0 is a little ugly,
381 ;; but shouldn't be a problem, and it's even
382 ;; possible to sort of justify it: the packing
383 ;; inefficiency which has caused (DYNAMIC-USAGE) to
384 ;; grow is effectively consing, or at least
385 ;; overhead of consing, so it's sort of correct to
386 ;; add it to the running total of consing. ("Man
387 ;; isn't a rational animal, he's a rationalizing
388 ;; animal.":-) -- WHN 2001-06-23
389 (eff-n-bytes-freed (max 0 n-bytes-freed)))
390 (declare (ignore ignore-me))
391 (/show0 "got (DYNAMIC-USAGE) and EFF-N-BYTES-FREED")
392 (incf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified*
394 (/show0 "clearing *NEED-TO-COLLECT-GARBAGE*")
395 (setf *need-to-collect-garbage* nil)
396 (/show0 "calculating NEW-GC-TRIGGER")
397 (let ((new-gc-trigger (+ post-gc-dynamic-usage
398 *bytes-consed-between-gcs*)))
399 (/show0 "setting *GC-TRIGGER*")
400 (setf *gc-trigger* new-gc-trigger))
401 (/show0 "calling SET-AUTO-GC-TRIGGER")
402 (set-auto-gc-trigger *gc-trigger*)
403 (dolist (hook *after-gc-hooks*)
404 (/show0 "doing a hook from *AFTER-GC--HOOKS*")
405 ;; FIXME: This hook should be called with the same
406 ;; kind of information as *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*. In
407 ;; particular, it would be nice for the hook function
408 ;; to be able to adjust *GC-TRIGGER* intelligently to
409 ;; e.g. 108% of total memory usage.
410 (carefully-funcall hook))
411 (when *gc-notify-stream*
412 (if (streamp *gc-notify-stream*)
413 (carefully-funcall *gc-notify-after*
415 post-gc-dynamic-usage
419 "*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* is set, but not a stream -- ignored.")))))
420 (scrub-control-stack))) ;XXX again? we did this from C ...
421 (incf *gc-run-time* (- (get-internal-run-time)
423 ;; FIXME: should probably return (VALUES), here and in RETURN-FROM
426 ;;; This routine is called by the allocation miscops to decide whether
427 ;;; a GC should occur. The argument, OBJECT, is the newly allocated
428 ;;; object which must be returned to the caller.
429 (defun maybe-gc (&optional object)
433 ;;; This is the user-advertised garbage collection function.
434 (defun gc (&key (gen 0) (full nil) &allow-other-keys)
435 #!+(and sb-doc gencgc)
436 "Initiate a garbage collection. GEN controls the number of generations
438 #!+(and sb-doc (not gencgc))
439 "Initiate a garbage collection. GEN may be provided for compatibility with
440 generational garbage collectors, but is ignored in this implementation."
441 (sub-gc :force-p t :gen (if full 6 gen)))
444 ;;;; auxiliary functions
446 (defun bytes-consed-between-gcs ()
448 "Return the amount of memory that will be allocated before the next garbage
449 collection is initiated. This can be set with SETF."
450 *bytes-consed-between-gcs*)
451 (defun (setf bytes-consed-between-gcs) (val)
452 ;; FIXME: Shouldn't this (and the DECLAIM for the underlying variable)
453 ;; be for a strictly positive number type, e.g.
454 ;; (AND (INTEGER 1) FIXNUM)?
455 (declare (type index val))
456 (let ((old *bytes-consed-between-gcs*))
457 (setf *bytes-consed-between-gcs* val)
459 (setf *gc-trigger* (+ *gc-trigger* (- val old)))
460 (cond ((<= (dynamic-usage) *gc-trigger*)
461 (clear-auto-gc-trigger)
462 (set-auto-gc-trigger *gc-trigger*))
464 ;; FIXME: If SCRUB-CONTROL-STACK is required here, why
465 ;; isn't it built into SUB-GC? And *is* it required here?
466 (sb!sys:scrub-control-stack)
472 "Enable the garbage collector."
473 (setq *gc-inhibit* 0)
474 (when *need-to-collect-garbage*
480 "Disable the garbage collector."
481 (setq *gc-inhibit* 1)
484 ;;;; initialization stuff
488 (if (< *gc-trigger* (dynamic-usage))
490 (set-auto-gc-trigger *gc-trigger*))))