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 (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :execute)
17 (sb!xc:defmacro def-c-var-fun (lisp-fun c-var-name)
19 (sb!alien:extern-alien ,c-var-name (sb!alien:unsigned 32)))))
22 (declaim (inline current-dynamic-space-start))
24 (defun current-dynamic-space-start () sb!vm:dynamic-space-start)
26 (def-c-var-fun current-dynamic-space-start "current_dynamic_space")
29 (declaim (inline dynamic-usage))
31 (def-c-var-fun dynamic-usage "bytes_allocated")
33 (defun dynamic-usage ()
34 (the (unsigned-byte 32)
35 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::dynamic-space-free-pointer))
36 (current-dynamic-space-start))))
38 (defun static-space-usage ()
39 (- (* sb!vm:*static-space-free-pointer* sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
40 sb!vm:static-space-start))
42 (defun read-only-space-usage ()
43 (- (* sb!vm::*read-only-space-free-pointer* sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
44 sb!vm:read-only-space-start))
46 (defun control-stack-usage ()
47 #!-stack-grows-downward-not-upward
48 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))
49 (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!di::descriptor-sap sb!vm:*control-stack-start*)))
50 #!+stack-grows-downward-not-upward
51 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!di::descriptor-sap sb!vm:*control-stack-end*))
52 (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap))))
54 (defun binding-stack-usage ()
55 (- (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!c::binding-stack-pointer-sap))
56 (sb!sys:sap-int (sb!di::descriptor-sap sb!vm:*binding-stack-start*))))
60 (defun room-minimal-info ()
61 (format t "Dynamic space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (dynamic-usage))
62 (format t "Read-only space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (read-only-space-usage))
63 (format t "Static space usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (static-space-usage))
64 (format t "Control stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (control-stack-usage))
65 (format t "Binding stack usage is: ~10:D bytes.~%" (binding-stack-usage))
68 "Control and binding stack usage is for the current thread only.~%")
69 (format t "Garbage collection is currently ~:[enabled~;DISABLED~].~%"
72 (defun room-intermediate-info ()
74 (sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:dynamic)
79 (defun room-maximal-info ()
80 ;; FIXME: SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE calls suppressed until bug 344 is fixed
81 (room-intermediate-info)
82 ;; old way, could be restored when bug 344 fixed:
83 ;;x (room-minimal-info)
84 ;;x (sb!vm:memory-usage :count-spaces '(:static :dynamic))
85 ;;x (sb!vm:instance-usage :dynamic :top-n 10)
86 ;;x (sb!vm:instance-usage :static :top-n 10)
89 (defun room (&optional (verbosity :default))
91 "Print to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* information about the state of internal
92 storage and its management. The optional argument controls the
93 verbosity of output. If it is T, ROOM prints out a maximal amount of
94 information. If it is NIL, ROOM prints out a minimal amount of
95 information. If it is :DEFAULT or it is not supplied, ROOM prints out
96 an intermediate amount of information."
104 (room-intermediate-info)))
107 ;;;; GET-BYTES-CONSED
109 ;;; the total number of bytes freed so far (including any freeing
110 ;;; which goes on in PURIFY)
112 ;;; (We save this so that we can calculate the total number of bytes
113 ;;; ever allocated by adding this to the number of bytes currently
114 ;;; allocated and never freed.)
115 (declaim (type unsigned-byte *n-bytes-freed-or-purified*))
116 (defvar *n-bytes-freed-or-purified* 0)
118 (setq *gc-inhibit* nil)
120 (setf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified* 0
122 ;; See comment in interr.lisp
123 *heap-exhausted-error-condition* (make-condition 'heap-exhausted-error)))
125 (declaim (ftype (sfunction () unsigned-byte) get-bytes-consed))
126 (defun get-bytes-consed ()
128 "Return the number of bytes consed since the program began. Typically
129 this result will be a consed bignum, so if you have an application (e.g.
130 profiling) which can't tolerate the overhead of consing bignums, you'll
131 probably want either to hack in at a lower level (as the code in the
132 SB-PROFILE package does), or to design a more microefficient interface
133 and submit it as a patch."
135 *n-bytes-freed-or-purified*))
139 (defvar *after-gc-hooks* nil
140 "Called after each garbage collection, except for garbage collections
141 triggered during thread exits. In a multithreaded environment these hooks may
147 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine collect-garbage sb!alien:int
148 (#!+gencgc last-gen #!-gencgc ignore sb!alien:int))
152 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine gc-stop-the-world sb!alien:void)
153 (sb!alien:define-alien-routine gc-start-the-world sb!alien:void))
156 (defun gc-stop-the-world ())
157 (defun gc-start-the-world ()))
162 ;;; SUB-GC does a garbage collection. This is called from three places:
163 ;;; (1) The C runtime will call here when it detects that we've consed
164 ;;; enough to exceed the gc trigger threshold. This is done in
165 ;;; alloc() for gencgc or interrupt_maybe_gc() for cheneygc
166 ;;; (2) The user may request a collection using GC, below
167 ;;; (3) At the end of a WITHOUT-GCING section, we are called if
168 ;;; *NEED-TO-COLLECT-GARBAGE* is true
170 ;;; This is different from the behaviour in 0.7 and earlier: it no
171 ;;; longer decides whether to GC based on thresholds. If you call
172 ;;; SUB-GC you will definitely get a GC either now or when the
173 ;;; WITHOUT-GCING is over
175 ;;; For GENCGC all generations < GEN will be GC'ed.
177 (defvar *already-in-gc* (sb!thread:make-mutex :name "GC lock"))
179 ;;; A unique GC id. This is supplied for code that needs to detect
180 ;;; whether a GC has happened since some earlier point in time. For
183 ;;; (let ((epoch *gc-epoch*))
185 ;;; (unless (eql epoch *gc-epoch)
188 ;;; This isn't just a fixnum counter since then we'd have theoretical
189 ;;; problems when exactly 2^29 GCs happen between epoch
190 ;;; comparisons. Unlikely, but the cost of using a cons instead is too
191 ;;; small to measure. -- JES, 2007-09-30
192 (declaim (type cons *gc-epoch*))
193 (defvar *gc-epoch* (cons nil nil))
195 (defun sub-gc (&key (gen 0))
197 (setf *gc-pending* t)
201 (setf *gc-pending* :in-progress)
202 ;; Tricks to to prevent triggerring a recursive gc. This is
203 ;; like a WITHOUT-GCING inside the lock except that we
204 ;; cannot call MAYBE-HANDLE-PENDING-GC at the end, because
205 ;; that would lead to a recursive attempt on the lock. In
206 ;; case you are wondering, wrapping the lock in a
207 ;; WITHOUT-GCING would also deadlock. The
208 ;; *IN-WITHOUT-GCING* part is used to tell the runtime that
209 ;; it's ok to have a pending gc even though *GC-INHIBIT* is
212 ;; Now, if GET-MUTEX did not cons, that would be enough.
213 ;; Because it does, we need the :IN-PROGRESS bit above to
214 ;; tell the runtime not to trigger gcs.
215 (let ((sb!impl::*in-without-gcing* t)
216 (sb!impl::*deadline* nil)
217 (sb!impl::*deadline-seconds* nil))
218 (sb!thread:with-mutex (*already-in-gc*)
219 (let ((*gc-inhibit* t))
220 (let ((old-usage (dynamic-usage))
224 (let ((start-time (get-internal-run-time)))
225 (collect-garbage gen)
226 (setf *gc-epoch* (cons nil nil))
228 (- (get-internal-run-time) start-time)))
229 (setf *gc-pending* nil
230 new-usage (dynamic-usage))
232 (assert (not *stop-for-gc-pending*))
234 ;; In a multithreaded environment the other threads
235 ;; will see *n-b-f-o-p* change a little late, but
237 (let ((freed (- old-usage new-usage)))
238 ;; GENCGC occasionally reports negative here, but
239 ;; the current belief is that it is part of the
240 ;; normal order of things and not a bug.
242 (incf *n-bytes-freed-or-purified* freed)))))))
243 ;; While holding the mutex we were protected from
244 ;; SIG_STOP_FOR_GC and recursive GCs. Now, in order to
245 ;; preserve the invariant (*GC-PENDING* ->
246 ;; pseudo-atomic-interrupted or *GC-INHIBIT*), let's check
247 ;; explicitly for a pending gc before interrupts are
249 (maybe-handle-pending-gc))
253 ;; Outside the mutex, interrupts may be enabled: these may cause
254 ;; another GC. FIXME: it can potentially exceed maximum interrupt
255 ;; nesting by triggering GCs.
257 ;; Can that be avoided by having the finalizers and hooks run only
258 ;; from the outermost SUB-GC? If the nested GCs happen in interrupt
259 ;; handlers that's not enough.
261 ;; KLUDGE: Don't run the hooks in GC's if:
263 ;; A) this thread is dying, so that user-code never runs with
264 ;; (thread-alive-p *current-thread*) => nil
266 ;; B) interrupts are disabled somewhere up the call chain since we
267 ;; don't want to run user code in such a case.
269 ;; The long-term solution will be to keep a separate thread for
270 ;; finalizers and after-gc hooks.
271 (when (sb!thread:thread-alive-p sb!thread:*current-thread*)
272 (when *allow-with-interrupts*
274 (run-pending-finalizers)
275 (call-hooks "after-GC" *after-gc-hooks* :on-error :warn)))))
277 ;;; This is the user-advertised garbage collection function.
278 (defun gc (&key (gen 0) (full nil) &allow-other-keys)
279 #!+(and sb-doc gencgc)
280 "Initiate a garbage collection. GEN controls the number of generations
282 #!+(and sb-doc (not gencgc))
283 "Initiate a garbage collection. GEN may be provided for compatibility with
284 generational garbage collectors, but is ignored in this implementation."
285 (when (sub-gc :gen (if full 6 gen))
288 (defun unsafe-clear-roots ()
289 ;; KLUDGE: Do things in an attempt to get rid of extra roots. Unsafe
290 ;; as having these cons more then we have space left leads to huge
292 (scrub-control-stack)
293 ;; Power cache of the bignum printer: drops overly large bignums and
294 ;; removes duplicate entries.
296 ;; FIXME: CTYPE-OF-CACHE-CLEAR isn't thread-safe.
298 (ctype-of-cache-clear))
301 ;;;; auxiliary functions
303 (defun bytes-consed-between-gcs ()
305 "Return the amount of memory that will be allocated before the next garbage
306 collection is initiated. This can be set with SETF."
307 (sb!alien:extern-alien "bytes_consed_between_gcs"
308 (sb!alien:unsigned 32)))
310 (defun (setf bytes-consed-between-gcs) (val)
311 (declare (type index val))
312 (setf (sb!alien:extern-alien "bytes_consed_between_gcs"
313 (sb!alien:unsigned 32))
316 (declaim (inline maybe-handle-pending-gc))
317 (defun maybe-handle-pending-gc ()
318 (when (and (not *gc-inhibit*)
319 (or #!+sb-thread *stop-for-gc-pending*
321 (sb!unix::receive-pending-interrupt)))