runtime: clean up old markrootSpans

This change removes the old markrootSpans implementation and deletes the
feature flag.

Updates #37487.

Change-Id: Idb5a2559abcc3be5a7da6f2ccce1a86e1d7634e3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/221183
Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek <mknyszek@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt <mpratt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
diff --git a/src/runtime/mgcmark.go b/src/runtime/mgcmark.go
index 96910ff..2b84945 100644
--- a/src/runtime/mgcmark.go
+++ b/src/runtime/mgcmark.go
@@ -47,10 +47,6 @@
 	// Must be a multiple of the pageInUse bitmap element size and
 	// must also evenly divide pagesPerArena.
 	pagesPerSpanRoot = 512
-
-	// go115NewMarkrootSpans is a feature flag that indicates whether
-	// to use the new bitmap-based markrootSpans implementation.
-	go115NewMarkrootSpans = true
 )
 
 // gcMarkRootPrepare queues root scanning jobs (stacks, globals, and
@@ -87,24 +83,16 @@
 	//
 	// We depend on addfinalizer to mark objects that get
 	// finalizers after root marking.
-	if go115NewMarkrootSpans {
-		// We're going to scan the whole heap (that was available at the time the
-		// mark phase started, i.e. markArenas) for in-use spans which have specials.
-		//
-		// Break up the work into arenas, and further into chunks.
-		//
-		// Snapshot allArenas as markArenas. This snapshot is safe because allArenas
-		// is append-only.
-		mheap_.markArenas = mheap_.allArenas[:len(mheap_.allArenas):len(mheap_.allArenas)]
-		work.nSpanRoots = len(mheap_.markArenas) * (pagesPerArena / pagesPerSpanRoot)
-	} else {
-		// We're only interested in scanning the in-use spans,
-		// which will all be swept at this point. More spans
-		// may be added to this list during concurrent GC, but
-		// we only care about spans that were allocated before
-		// this mark phase.
-		work.nSpanRoots = mheap_.sweepSpans[mheap_.sweepgen/2%2].numBlocks()
-	}
+	//
+	// We're going to scan the whole heap (that was available at the time the
+	// mark phase started, i.e. markArenas) for in-use spans which have specials.
+	//
+	// Break up the work into arenas, and further into chunks.
+	//
+	// Snapshot allArenas as markArenas. This snapshot is safe because allArenas
+	// is append-only.
+	mheap_.markArenas = mheap_.allArenas[:len(mheap_.allArenas):len(mheap_.allArenas)]
+	work.nSpanRoots = len(mheap_.markArenas) * (pagesPerArena / pagesPerSpanRoot)
 
 	// Scan stacks.
 	//
@@ -316,10 +304,6 @@
 //
 //go:nowritebarrier
 func markrootSpans(gcw *gcWork, shard int) {
-	if !go115NewMarkrootSpans {
-		oldMarkrootSpans(gcw, shard)
-		return
-	}
 	// Objects with finalizers have two GC-related invariants:
 	//
 	// 1) Everything reachable from the object must be marked.
@@ -396,90 +380,6 @@
 	}
 }
 
-// oldMarkrootSpans marks roots for one shard of work.spans.
-//
-// For go115NewMarkrootSpans = false.
-//
-//go:nowritebarrier
-func oldMarkrootSpans(gcw *gcWork, shard int) {
-	// Objects with finalizers have two GC-related invariants:
-	//
-	// 1) Everything reachable from the object must be marked.
-	// This ensures that when we pass the object to its finalizer,
-	// everything the finalizer can reach will be retained.
-	//
-	// 2) Finalizer specials (which are not in the garbage
-	// collected heap) are roots. In practice, this means the fn
-	// field must be scanned.
-	//
-	// TODO(austin): There are several ideas for making this more
-	// efficient in issue #11485.
-
-	sg := mheap_.sweepgen
-	spans := mheap_.sweepSpans[mheap_.sweepgen/2%2].block(shard)
-	// Note that work.spans may not include spans that were
-	// allocated between entering the scan phase and now. We may
-	// also race with spans being added into sweepSpans when they're
-	// just created, and as a result we may see nil pointers in the
-	// spans slice. This is okay because any objects with finalizers
-	// in those spans must have been allocated and given finalizers
-	// after we entered the scan phase, so addfinalizer will have
-	// ensured the above invariants for them.
-	for i := 0; i < len(spans); i++ {
-		// sweepBuf.block requires that we read pointers from the block atomically.
-		// It also requires that we ignore nil pointers.
-		s := (*mspan)(atomic.Loadp(unsafe.Pointer(&spans[i])))
-
-		// This is racing with spans being initialized, so
-		// check the state carefully.
-		if s == nil || s.state.get() != mSpanInUse {
-			continue
-		}
-		// Check that this span was swept (it may be cached or uncached).
-		if !useCheckmark && !(s.sweepgen == sg || s.sweepgen == sg+3) {
-			// sweepgen was updated (+2) during non-checkmark GC pass
-			print("sweep ", s.sweepgen, " ", sg, "\n")
-			throw("gc: unswept span")
-		}
-
-		// Speculatively check if there are any specials
-		// without acquiring the span lock. This may race with
-		// adding the first special to a span, but in that
-		// case addfinalizer will observe that the GC is
-		// active (which is globally synchronized) and ensure
-		// the above invariants. We may also ensure the
-		// invariants, but it's okay to scan an object twice.
-		if s.specials == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		// Lock the specials to prevent a special from being
-		// removed from the list while we're traversing it.
-		lock(&s.speciallock)
-
-		for sp := s.specials; sp != nil; sp = sp.next {
-			if sp.kind != _KindSpecialFinalizer {
-				continue
-			}
-			// don't mark finalized object, but scan it so we
-			// retain everything it points to.
-			spf := (*specialfinalizer)(unsafe.Pointer(sp))
-			// A finalizer can be set for an inner byte of an object, find object beginning.
-			p := s.base() + uintptr(spf.special.offset)/s.elemsize*s.elemsize
-
-			// Mark everything that can be reached from
-			// the object (but *not* the object itself or
-			// we'll never collect it).
-			scanobject(p, gcw)
-
-			// The special itself is a root.
-			scanblock(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&spf.fn)), sys.PtrSize, &oneptrmask[0], gcw, nil)
-		}
-
-		unlock(&s.speciallock)
-	}
-}
-
 // gcAssistAlloc performs GC work to make gp's assist debt positive.
 // gp must be the calling user gorountine.
 //
diff --git a/src/runtime/mgcsweep.go b/src/runtime/mgcsweep.go
index 3aa3afc..9244174 100644
--- a/src/runtime/mgcsweep.go
+++ b/src/runtime/mgcsweep.go
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
 			special = *specialp
 		}
 	}
-	if go115NewMarkrootSpans && hadSpecials && s.specials == nil {
+	if hadSpecials && s.specials == nil {
 		spanHasNoSpecials(s)
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/runtime/mgcsweepbuf.go b/src/runtime/mgcsweepbuf.go
index 1f722c3..5e5ca3d 100644
--- a/src/runtime/mgcsweepbuf.go
+++ b/src/runtime/mgcsweepbuf.go
@@ -136,41 +136,3 @@
 	block.spans[bottom] = nil
 	return s
 }
-
-// numBlocks returns the number of blocks in buffer b. numBlocks is
-// safe to call concurrently with any other operation. Spans that have
-// been pushed prior to the call to numBlocks are guaranteed to appear
-// in some block in the range [0, numBlocks()), assuming there are no
-// intervening pops. Spans that are pushed after the call may also
-// appear in these blocks.
-func (b *gcSweepBuf) numBlocks() int {
-	return int(divRoundUp(uintptr(atomic.Load(&b.index)), gcSweepBlockEntries))
-}
-
-// block returns the spans in the i'th block of buffer b. block is
-// safe to call concurrently with push. The block may contain nil
-// pointers that must be ignored, and each entry in the block must be
-// loaded atomically.
-func (b *gcSweepBuf) block(i int) []*mspan {
-	// Perform bounds check before loading spine address since
-	// push ensures the allocated length is at least spineLen.
-	if i < 0 || uintptr(i) >= atomic.Loaduintptr(&b.spineLen) {
-		throw("block index out of range")
-	}
-
-	// Get block i.
-	spine := atomic.Loadp(unsafe.Pointer(&b.spine))
-	blockp := add(spine, sys.PtrSize*uintptr(i))
-	block := (*gcSweepBlock)(atomic.Loadp(blockp))
-
-	// Slice the block if necessary.
-	cursor := uintptr(atomic.Load(&b.index))
-	top, bottom := cursor/gcSweepBlockEntries, cursor%gcSweepBlockEntries
-	var spans []*mspan
-	if uintptr(i) < top {
-		spans = block.spans[:]
-	} else {
-		spans = block.spans[:bottom]
-	}
-	return spans
-}
diff --git a/src/runtime/mheap.go b/src/runtime/mheap.go
index 6341375..0807726 100644
--- a/src/runtime/mheap.go
+++ b/src/runtime/mheap.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 	// The definition of this flag helps ensure that if there's a problem with
 	// the new markroot spans implementation and it gets turned off, that the new
 	// mcentral implementation also gets turned off so the runtime isn't broken.
-	go115NewMCentralImpl = true && go115NewMarkrootSpans
+	go115NewMCentralImpl = true
 )
 
 // Main malloc heap.
@@ -1705,9 +1705,7 @@
 	s.offset = uint16(offset)
 	s.next = *t
 	*t = s
-	if go115NewMarkrootSpans {
-		spanHasSpecials(span)
-	}
+	spanHasSpecials(span)
 	unlock(&span.speciallock)
 	releasem(mp)
 
@@ -1748,7 +1746,7 @@
 		}
 		t = &s.next
 	}
-	if go115NewMarkrootSpans && span.specials == nil {
+	if span.specials == nil {
 		spanHasNoSpecials(span)
 	}
 	unlock(&span.speciallock)