tree 024dfcf43bc3ee9bc6efececb550e8ed8dddd7d1
parent 125f52dfa8ce6df0380b0bdc66effb8afd697bda
author Austin Clements <austin@google.com> 1454353611 -0500
committer Austin Clements <austin@google.com> 1454379088 +0000

runtime: start an M when handing off a P when there's GC work

Currently it's possible for the scheduler to deadlock with the right
confluence of locked Gs, assists, and scheduling of background mark
workers. Broadly, this happens because handoffp is stricter than
findrunnable, and if the only work for a P is GC work, handoffp will
put the P into idle, rather than starting an M to execute that P. One
way this can happen is as follows:

0. There is only one user G, which we'll call G 1. There is more than
   one P, but they're all idle except the one running G 1.

1. G 1 locks itself to an M using runtime.LockOSThread.

2. GC starts up and enters mark 1.

3. G 1 performs a GC assist, which completes mark 1 without being
   fully satisfied. Completing mark 1 causes all background mark
   workers to park. And since the assist isn't fully satisfied, it
   parks as well, waiting for a background mark worker to satisfy its
   remaining assist debt.

4. The assist park enters the scheduler. Since G 1 is locked to the M,
   the scheduler releases the P and calls handoffp to hand the P to
   another M.

5. handoffp checks the local and global run queues, which are empty,
   and sees that there are idle Ps, so rather than start an M, it puts
   the P into idle.

At this point, all of the Gs are waiting and all of the Ps are idle.
In particular, none of the GC workers are running, so no mark work
gets done and the assist on the main G is never satisfied, so the
whole process soft locks up.

Fix this by making handoffp start an M if there is GC work. This
reintroduces a key invariant: that in any situation where findrunnable
would return a G to run on a P, handoffp for that P will start an M to
run work on that P.

Fixes #13645.

Tested by running 2,689 iterations of `go tool dist test -no-rebuild
runtime:cpu124` across 10 linux-amd64-noopt VMs with no failures.
Without this change, the failure rate was somewhere around 1%.

Performance change is negligible.

name              old time/op  new time/op  delta
XBenchGarbage-12  2.48ms ± 2%  2.48ms ± 1%  -0.24%  (p=0.000 n=92+93)

name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
BinaryTree17-12              2.86s ± 2%     2.87s ± 2%    ~     (p=0.667 n=19+20)
Fannkuch11-12                2.52s ± 1%     2.47s ± 1%  -2.05%  (p=0.000 n=18+20)
FmtFprintfEmpty-12          51.7ns ± 1%    51.5ns ± 3%    ~     (p=0.931 n=16+20)
FmtFprintfString-12          170ns ± 1%     168ns ± 1%  -0.65%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
FmtFprintfInt-12             160ns ± 0%     160ns ± 0%  +0.18%  (p=0.033 n=17+19)
FmtFprintfIntInt-12          265ns ± 1%     273ns ± 1%  +2.98%  (p=0.000 n=17+19)
FmtFprintfPrefixedInt-12     235ns ± 1%     239ns ± 1%  +1.99%  (p=0.000 n=16+19)
FmtFprintfFloat-12           315ns ± 0%     315ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.250 n=17+19)
FmtManyArgs-12              1.04µs ± 1%    1.05µs ± 0%  +0.87%  (p=0.000 n=17+19)
GobDecode-12                7.93ms ± 0%    7.85ms ± 1%  -1.03%  (p=0.000 n=16+18)
GobEncode-12                6.62ms ± 1%    6.58ms ± 1%  -0.60%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
Gzip-12                      322ms ± 1%     320ms ± 1%  -0.46%  (p=0.009 n=20+20)
Gunzip-12                   42.5ms ± 1%    42.5ms ± 0%    ~     (p=0.751 n=19+19)
HTTPClientServer-12         69.7µs ± 1%    70.0µs ± 2%    ~     (p=0.056 n=19+19)
JSONEncode-12               16.9ms ± 1%    16.7ms ± 1%  -1.13%  (p=0.000 n=19+19)
JSONDecode-12               61.5ms ± 1%    61.3ms ± 1%  -0.35%  (p=0.001 n=20+17)
Mandelbrot200-12            3.94ms ± 0%    3.91ms ± 0%  -0.67%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
GoParse-12                  3.71ms ± 1%    3.70ms ± 1%    ~     (p=0.244 n=17+19)
RegexpMatchEasy0_32-12       101ns ± 1%     102ns ± 2%  +0.54%  (p=0.037 n=19+20)
RegexpMatchEasy0_1K-12       349ns ± 0%     350ns ± 0%  +0.33%  (p=0.000 n=17+18)
RegexpMatchEasy1_32-12      84.5ns ± 2%    84.2ns ± 1%  -0.43%  (p=0.048 n=19+20)
RegexpMatchEasy1_1K-12       510ns ± 1%     513ns ± 2%  +0.58%  (p=0.002 n=18+20)
RegexpMatchMedium_32-12      132ns ± 1%     134ns ± 1%  +0.95%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
RegexpMatchMedium_1K-12     40.1µs ± 1%    39.6µs ± 1%  -1.39%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
RegexpMatchHard_32-12       2.08µs ± 0%    2.06µs ± 1%  -0.95%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
RegexpMatchHard_1K-12       62.2µs ± 1%    61.9µs ± 1%  -0.42%  (p=0.001 n=19+20)
Revcomp-12                   537ms ± 0%     536ms ± 0%    ~     (p=0.076 n=20+20)
Template-12                 71.3ms ± 1%    69.3ms ± 1%  -2.75%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
TimeParse-12                 361ns ± 0%     360ns ± 1%    ~     (p=0.056 n=19+19)
TimeFormat-12                353ns ± 0%     352ns ± 0%  -0.23%  (p=0.000 n=17+18)
[Geo mean]                  62.6µs         62.5µs       -0.17%

Change-Id: I0fbbbe4d7d99653ba5600ffb4394fa03558bc4e9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19107
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>