| // Copyright 2009 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. |
| |
| /* |
| Package runtime contains operations that interact with Go's runtime system, |
| such as functions to control goroutines. It also includes the low-level type information |
| used by the reflect package; see [reflect]'s documentation for the programmable |
| interface to the run-time type system. |
| |
| # Environment Variables |
| |
| The following environment variables ($name or %name%, depending on the host |
| operating system) control the run-time behavior of Go programs. The meanings |
| and use may change from release to release. |
| |
| The GOGC variable sets the initial garbage collection target percentage. |
| A collection is triggered when the ratio of freshly allocated data to live data |
| remaining after the previous collection reaches this percentage. The default |
| is GOGC=100. Setting GOGC=off disables the garbage collector entirely. |
| [runtime/debug.SetGCPercent] allows changing this percentage at run time. |
| |
| The GOMEMLIMIT variable sets a soft memory limit for the runtime. This memory limit |
| includes the Go heap and all other memory managed by the runtime, and excludes |
| external memory sources such as mappings of the binary itself, memory managed in |
| other languages, and memory held by the operating system on behalf of the Go |
| program. GOMEMLIMIT is a numeric value in bytes with an optional unit suffix. |
| The supported suffixes include B, KiB, MiB, GiB, and TiB. These suffixes |
| represent quantities of bytes as defined by the IEC 80000-13 standard. That is, |
| they are based on powers of two: KiB means 2^10 bytes, MiB means 2^20 bytes, |
| and so on. The default setting is [math.MaxInt64], which effectively disables the |
| memory limit. [runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit] allows changing this limit at run |
| time. |
| |
| The GODEBUG variable controls debugging variables within the runtime. |
| It is a comma-separated list of name=val pairs setting these named variables: |
| |
| allocfreetrace: setting allocfreetrace=1 causes every allocation to be |
| profiled and a stack trace printed on each object's allocation and free. |
| |
| clobberfree: setting clobberfree=1 causes the garbage collector to |
| clobber the memory content of an object with bad content when it frees |
| the object. |
| |
| cpu.*: cpu.all=off disables the use of all optional instruction set extensions. |
| cpu.extension=off disables use of instructions from the specified instruction set extension. |
| extension is the lower case name for the instruction set extension such as sse41 or avx |
| as listed in internal/cpu package. As an example cpu.avx=off disables runtime detection |
| and thereby use of AVX instructions. |
| |
| cgocheck: setting cgocheck=0 disables all checks for packages |
| using cgo to incorrectly pass Go pointers to non-Go code. |
| Setting cgocheck=1 (the default) enables relatively cheap |
| checks that may miss some errors. A more complete, but slow, |
| cgocheck mode can be enabled using GOEXPERIMENT (which |
| requires a rebuild), see https://pkg.go.dev/internal/goexperiment for details. |
| |
| disablethp: setting disablethp=1 on Linux disables transparent huge pages for the heap. |
| It has no effect on other platforms. disablethp is meant for compatibility with versions |
| of Go before 1.21, which stopped working around a Linux kernel default that can result |
| in significant memory overuse. See https://go.dev/issue/64332. This setting will be |
| removed in a future release, so operators should tweak their Linux configuration to suit |
| their needs before then. See https://go.dev/doc/gc-guide#Linux_transparent_huge_pages. |
| |
| dontfreezetheworld: by default, the start of a fatal panic or throw |
| "freezes the world", preempting all threads to stop all running |
| goroutines, which makes it possible to traceback all goroutines, and |
| keeps their state close to the point of panic. Setting |
| dontfreezetheworld=1 disables this preemption, allowing goroutines to |
| continue executing during panic processing. Note that goroutines that |
| naturally enter the scheduler will still stop. This can be useful when |
| debugging the runtime scheduler, as freezetheworld perturbs scheduler |
| state and thus may hide problems. |
| |
| efence: setting efence=1 causes the allocator to run in a mode |
| where each object is allocated on a unique page and addresses are |
| never recycled. |
| |
| gccheckmark: setting gccheckmark=1 enables verification of the |
| garbage collector's concurrent mark phase by performing a |
| second mark pass while the world is stopped. If the second |
| pass finds a reachable object that was not found by concurrent |
| mark, the garbage collector will panic. |
| |
| gcpacertrace: setting gcpacertrace=1 causes the garbage collector to |
| print information about the internal state of the concurrent pacer. |
| |
| gcshrinkstackoff: setting gcshrinkstackoff=1 disables moving goroutines |
| onto smaller stacks. In this mode, a goroutine's stack can only grow. |
| |
| gcstoptheworld: setting gcstoptheworld=1 disables concurrent garbage collection, |
| making every garbage collection a stop-the-world event. Setting gcstoptheworld=2 |
| also disables concurrent sweeping after the garbage collection finishes. |
| |
| gctrace: setting gctrace=1 causes the garbage collector to emit a single line to standard |
| error at each collection, summarizing the amount of memory collected and the |
| length of the pause. The format of this line is subject to change. Included in |
| the explanation below is also the relevant runtime/metrics metric for each field. |
| Currently, it is: |
| gc # @#s #%: #+#+# ms clock, #+#/#/#+# ms cpu, #->#-># MB, # MB goal, # MB stacks, #MB globals, # P |
| where the fields are as follows: |
| gc # the GC number, incremented at each GC |
| @#s time in seconds since program start |
| #% percentage of time spent in GC since program start |
| #+...+# wall-clock/CPU times for the phases of the GC |
| #->#-># MB heap size at GC start, at GC end, and live heap, or /gc/scan/heap:bytes |
| # MB goal goal heap size, or /gc/heap/goal:bytes |
| # MB stacks estimated scannable stack size, or /gc/scan/stack:bytes |
| # MB globals scannable global size, or /gc/scan/globals:bytes |
| # P number of processors used, or /sched/gomaxprocs:threads |
| The phases are stop-the-world (STW) sweep termination, concurrent |
| mark and scan, and STW mark termination. The CPU times |
| for mark/scan are broken down in to assist time (GC performed in |
| line with allocation), background GC time, and idle GC time. |
| If the line ends with "(forced)", this GC was forced by a |
| runtime.GC() call. |
| |
| harddecommit: setting harddecommit=1 causes memory that is returned to the OS to |
| also have protections removed on it. This is the only mode of operation on Windows, |
| but is helpful in debugging scavenger-related issues on other platforms. Currently, |
| only supported on Linux. |
| |
| inittrace: setting inittrace=1 causes the runtime to emit a single line to standard |
| error for each package with init work, summarizing the execution time and memory |
| allocation. No information is printed for inits executed as part of plugin loading |
| and for packages without both user defined and compiler generated init work. |
| The format of this line is subject to change. Currently, it is: |
| init # @#ms, # ms clock, # bytes, # allocs |
| where the fields are as follows: |
| init # the package name |
| @# ms time in milliseconds when the init started since program start |
| # clock wall-clock time for package initialization work |
| # bytes memory allocated on the heap |
| # allocs number of heap allocations |
| |
| madvdontneed: setting madvdontneed=0 will use MADV_FREE |
| instead of MADV_DONTNEED on Linux when returning memory to the |
| kernel. This is more efficient, but means RSS numbers will |
| drop only when the OS is under memory pressure. On the BSDs and |
| Illumos/Solaris, setting madvdontneed=1 will use MADV_DONTNEED instead |
| of MADV_FREE. This is less efficient, but causes RSS numbers to drop |
| more quickly. |
| |
| memprofilerate: setting memprofilerate=X will update the value of runtime.MemProfileRate. |
| When set to 0 memory profiling is disabled. Refer to the description of |
| MemProfileRate for the default value. |
| |
| pagetrace: setting pagetrace=/path/to/file will write out a trace of page events |
| that can be viewed, analyzed, and visualized using the x/debug/cmd/pagetrace tool. |
| Build your program with GOEXPERIMENT=pagetrace to enable this functionality. Do not |
| enable this functionality if your program is a setuid binary as it introduces a security |
| risk in that scenario. Currently not supported on Windows, plan9 or js/wasm. Setting this |
| option for some applications can produce large traces, so use with care. |
| |
| panicnil: setting panicnil=1 disables the runtime error when calling panic with nil |
| interface value or an untyped nil. |
| |
| runtimecontentionstacks: setting runtimecontentionstacks=1 enables inclusion of call stacks |
| related to contention on runtime-internal locks in the "mutex" profile, subject to the |
| MutexProfileFraction setting. When runtimecontentionstacks=0, contention on |
| runtime-internal locks will report as "runtime._LostContendedRuntimeLock". When |
| runtimecontentionstacks=1, the call stacks will correspond to the unlock call that released |
| the lock. But instead of the value corresponding to the amount of contention that call |
| stack caused, it corresponds to the amount of time the caller of unlock had to wait in its |
| original call to lock. A future release is expected to align those and remove this setting. |
| |
| invalidptr: invalidptr=1 (the default) causes the garbage collector and stack |
| copier to crash the program if an invalid pointer value (for example, 1) |
| is found in a pointer-typed location. Setting invalidptr=0 disables this check. |
| This should only be used as a temporary workaround to diagnose buggy code. |
| The real fix is to not store integers in pointer-typed locations. |
| |
| sbrk: setting sbrk=1 replaces the memory allocator and garbage collector |
| with a trivial allocator that obtains memory from the operating system and |
| never reclaims any memory. |
| |
| scavtrace: setting scavtrace=1 causes the runtime to emit a single line to standard |
| error, roughly once per GC cycle, summarizing the amount of work done by the |
| scavenger as well as the total amount of memory returned to the operating system |
| and an estimate of physical memory utilization. The format of this line is subject |
| to change, but currently it is: |
| scav # KiB work (bg), # KiB work (eager), # KiB total, #% util |
| where the fields are as follows: |
| # KiB work (bg) the amount of memory returned to the OS in the background since |
| the last line |
| # KiB work (eager) the amount of memory returned to the OS eagerly since the last line |
| # KiB now the amount of address space currently returned to the OS |
| #% util the fraction of all unscavenged heap memory which is in-use |
| If the line ends with "(forced)", then scavenging was forced by a |
| debug.FreeOSMemory() call. |
| |
| scheddetail: setting schedtrace=X and scheddetail=1 causes the scheduler to emit |
| detailed multiline info every X milliseconds, describing state of the scheduler, |
| processors, threads and goroutines. |
| |
| schedtrace: setting schedtrace=X causes the scheduler to emit a single line to standard |
| error every X milliseconds, summarizing the scheduler state. |
| |
| tracebackancestors: setting tracebackancestors=N extends tracebacks with the stacks at |
| which goroutines were created, where N limits the number of ancestor goroutines to |
| report. This also extends the information returned by runtime.Stack. Ancestor's goroutine |
| IDs will refer to the ID of the goroutine at the time of creation; it's possible for this |
| ID to be reused for another goroutine. Setting N to 0 will report no ancestry information. |
| |
| tracefpunwindoff: setting tracefpunwindoff=1 forces the execution tracer to |
| use the runtime's default stack unwinder instead of frame pointer unwinding. |
| This increases tracer overhead, but could be helpful as a workaround or for |
| debugging unexpected regressions caused by frame pointer unwinding. |
| |
| traceadvanceperiod: the approximate period in nanoseconds between trace generations. Only |
| applies if a program is built with GOEXPERIMENT=exectracer2. Used primarily for testing |
| and debugging the execution tracer. |
| |
| asyncpreemptoff: asyncpreemptoff=1 disables signal-based |
| asynchronous goroutine preemption. This makes some loops |
| non-preemptible for long periods, which may delay GC and |
| goroutine scheduling. This is useful for debugging GC issues |
| because it also disables the conservative stack scanning used |
| for asynchronously preempted goroutines. |
| |
| The [net] and [net/http] packages also refer to debugging variables in GODEBUG. |
| See the documentation for those packages for details. |
| |
| The GOMAXPROCS variable limits the number of operating system threads that |
| can execute user-level Go code simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of threads |
| that can be blocked in system calls on behalf of Go code; those do not count against |
| the GOMAXPROCS limit. This package's [GOMAXPROCS] function queries and changes |
| the limit. |
| |
| The GORACE variable configures the race detector, for programs built using -race. |
| See the [Race Detector article] for details. |
| |
| The GOTRACEBACK variable controls the amount of output generated when a Go |
| program fails due to an unrecovered panic or an unexpected runtime condition. |
| By default, a failure prints a stack trace for the current goroutine, |
| eliding functions internal to the run-time system, and then exits with exit code 2. |
| The failure prints stack traces for all goroutines if there is no current goroutine |
| or the failure is internal to the run-time. |
| GOTRACEBACK=none omits the goroutine stack traces entirely. |
| GOTRACEBACK=single (the default) behaves as described above. |
| GOTRACEBACK=all adds stack traces for all user-created goroutines. |
| GOTRACEBACK=system is like “all” but adds stack frames for run-time functions |
| and shows goroutines created internally by the run-time. |
| GOTRACEBACK=crash is like “system” but crashes in an operating system-specific |
| manner instead of exiting. For example, on Unix systems, the crash raises |
| SIGABRT to trigger a core dump. |
| GOTRACEBACK=wer is like “crash” but doesn't disable Windows Error Reporting (WER). |
| For historical reasons, the GOTRACEBACK settings 0, 1, and 2 are synonyms for |
| none, all, and system, respectively. |
| The [runtime/debug.SetTraceback] function allows increasing the |
| amount of output at run time, but it cannot reduce the amount below that |
| specified by the environment variable. |
| |
| The GOARCH, GOOS, GOPATH, and GOROOT environment variables complete |
| the set of Go environment variables. They influence the building of Go programs |
| (see [cmd/go] and [go/build]). |
| GOARCH, GOOS, and GOROOT are recorded at compile time and made available by |
| constants or functions in this package, but they do not influence the execution |
| of the run-time system. |
| |
| # Security |
| |
| On Unix platforms, Go's runtime system behaves slightly differently when a |
| binary is setuid/setgid or executed with setuid/setgid-like properties, in order |
| to prevent dangerous behaviors. On Linux this is determined by checking for the |
| AT_SECURE flag in the auxiliary vector, on the BSDs and Solaris/Illumos it is |
| determined by checking the issetugid syscall, and on AIX it is determined by |
| checking if the uid/gid match the effective uid/gid. |
| |
| When the runtime determines the binary is setuid/setgid-like, it does three main |
| things: |
| - The standard input/output file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are checked to be open. |
| If any of them are closed, they are opened pointing at /dev/null. |
| - The value of the GOTRACEBACK environment variable is set to 'none'. |
| - When a signal is received that terminates the program, or the program |
| encounters an unrecoverable panic that would otherwise override the value |
| of GOTRACEBACK, the goroutine stack, registers, and other memory related |
| information are omitted. |
| |
| [Race Detector article]: https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector |
| */ |
| package runtime |
| |
| import ( |
| "internal/goarch" |
| "internal/goos" |
| ) |
| |
| // Caller reports file and line number information about function invocations on |
| // the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames |
| // to ascend, with 0 identifying the caller of Caller. (For historical reasons the |
| // meaning of skip differs between Caller and [Callers].) The return values report the |
| // program counter, file name, and line number within the file of the corresponding |
| // call. The boolean ok is false if it was not possible to recover the information. |
| func Caller(skip int) (pc uintptr, file string, line int, ok bool) { |
| rpc := make([]uintptr, 1) |
| n := callers(skip+1, rpc[:]) |
| if n < 1 { |
| return |
| } |
| frame, _ := CallersFrames(rpc).Next() |
| return frame.PC, frame.File, frame.Line, frame.PC != 0 |
| } |
| |
| // Callers fills the slice pc with the return program counters of function invocations |
| // on the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames |
| // to skip before recording in pc, with 0 identifying the frame for Callers itself and |
| // 1 identifying the caller of Callers. |
| // It returns the number of entries written to pc. |
| // |
| // To translate these PCs into symbolic information such as function |
| // names and line numbers, use [CallersFrames]. CallersFrames accounts |
| // for inlined functions and adjusts the return program counters into |
| // call program counters. Iterating over the returned slice of PCs |
| // directly is discouraged, as is using [FuncForPC] on any of the |
| // returned PCs, since these cannot account for inlining or return |
| // program counter adjustment. |
| func Callers(skip int, pc []uintptr) int { |
| // runtime.callers uses pc.array==nil as a signal |
| // to print a stack trace. Pick off 0-length pc here |
| // so that we don't let a nil pc slice get to it. |
| if len(pc) == 0 { |
| return 0 |
| } |
| return callers(skip, pc) |
| } |
| |
| var defaultGOROOT string // set by cmd/link |
| |
| // GOROOT returns the root of the Go tree. It uses the |
| // GOROOT environment variable, if set at process start, |
| // or else the root used during the Go build. |
| func GOROOT() string { |
| s := gogetenv("GOROOT") |
| if s != "" { |
| return s |
| } |
| return defaultGOROOT |
| } |
| |
| // buildVersion is the Go tree's version string at build time. |
| // |
| // If any GOEXPERIMENTs are set to non-default values, it will include |
| // "X:<GOEXPERIMENT>". |
| // |
| // This is set by the linker. |
| // |
| // This is accessed by "go version <binary>". |
| var buildVersion string |
| |
| // Version returns the Go tree's version string. |
| // It is either the commit hash and date at the time of the build or, |
| // when possible, a release tag like "go1.3". |
| func Version() string { |
| return buildVersion |
| } |
| |
| // GOOS is the running program's operating system target: |
| // one of darwin, freebsd, linux, and so on. |
| // To view possible combinations of GOOS and GOARCH, run "go tool dist list". |
| const GOOS string = goos.GOOS |
| |
| // GOARCH is the running program's architecture target: |
| // one of 386, amd64, arm, s390x, and so on. |
| const GOARCH string = goarch.GOARCH |