go/src/runtime/mpagealloc.go, branch makepkg

runtime: use a smaller arena size on Wasm

2025-09-27T00:13:31Z

On Wasm, some programs have very small heap. Currently, we use 4 MB arena size (like all other 32-bit platforms). For a very small program, it needs to allocate one heap arena, 4 MB size at a 4 MB aligned address. So we'll need 8 MB of linear memory, whereas only a smaller portion is actually used by the program. On Wasm, samll programs are not uncommon (e.g. WASI plugins), and users are concerned about the memory usage. This CL switches to a smaller arena size, as well as a smaller page allocator chunk size (both are now 512 KB). So the heap will be grown in 512 KB granularity. For a helloworld program, it now uses less than 3 MB of linear memory, instead of 8 MB. Change-Id: Ibd66c1fa6e794a12c00906cbacc8f2e410f196c4 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/683296 Reviewed-by: David Chase Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI

runtime: randomize heap base address

2025-07-24T16:59:23Z

During initialization, allow randomizing the heap base address by generating a random uint64 and using its bits to randomize various portions of the heap base address. We use the following method to randomize the base address: * We first generate a random heapArenaBytes aligned address that we use for generating the hints. * On the first call to mheap.grow, we then generate a random PallocChunkBytes aligned offset into the mmap'd heap region, which we use as the base for the heap region. * We then mark a random number of pages within the page allocator as allocated. Our final randomized "heap base address" becomes the first byte of the first available page returned by the page allocator. This results in an address with at least heapAddrBits-gc.PageShift-1 bits of entropy. Fixes #27583 Change-Id: Ideb4450a5ff747a132f702d563d2a516dec91a88 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/674835 Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI

runtime: move sizeclass defs to new package internal/runtime/gc

2025-04-23T15:00:33Z

We will want to reference these definitions from new generator programs, and this is a good opportunity to cleanup all these old C-style names. Change-Id: Ifb06f0afc381e2697e7877f038eca786610c96de Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/655275 Auto-Submit: Michael Knyszek LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt

runtime: decorate anonymous memory mappings

2025-03-04T19:22:33Z

Leverage the prctl(PR_SET_VMA, PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME, ...) API to name the anonymous memory areas. This API has been introduced in Linux 5.17 to decorate the anonymous memory areas shown in /proc//maps. This is already used by glibc. See: * https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=malloc/malloc.c;h=27dfd1eb907f4615b70c70237c42c552bb4f26a8;hb=HEAD#l2434 * https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/setvmaname.c;h=ea93a5ffbebc9e5a7e32a297138f465724b4725f;hb=HEAD#l63 This can be useful when investigating the memory consumption of a multi-language program. On a 100% Go program, pprof profiler can be used to profile the memory consumption of the program. But pprof is only aware of what happens within the Go world. On a multi-language program, there could be a doubt about whether the suspicious extra-memory consumption comes from the Go part or the native part. With this change, the following Go program: package main import ( "fmt" "log" "os" ) /* #include void f(void) { (void)malloc(1024*1024*1024); } */ import "C" func main() { C.f() data, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/self/maps") if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Println(string(data)) } produces this output: $ GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.mem.decorate_maps=1 ~/doc/devel/open-source/go/bin/go run . 00400000-00402000 r--p 00000000 00:21 28451768 /home/lenaic/.cache/go-build/9f/9f25a17baed5a80d03eb080a2ce2a5ff49c17f9a56e28330f0474a2bb74a30a0-d/test_vma_name 00402000-004a4000 r-xp 00002000 00:21 28451768 /home/lenaic/.cache/go-build/9f/9f25a17baed5a80d03eb080a2ce2a5ff49c17f9a56e28330f0474a2bb74a30a0-d/test_vma_name 004a4000-00574000 r--p 000a4000 00:21 28451768 /home/lenaic/.cache/go-build/9f/9f25a17baed5a80d03eb080a2ce2a5ff49c17f9a56e28330f0474a2bb74a30a0-d/test_vma_name 00574000-00575000 r--p 00173000 00:21 28451768 /home/lenaic/.cache/go-build/9f/9f25a17baed5a80d03eb080a2ce2a5ff49c17f9a56e28330f0474a2bb74a30a0-d/test_vma_name 00575000-00580000 rw-p 00174000 00:21 28451768 /home/lenaic/.cache/go-build/9f/9f25a17baed5a80d03eb080a2ce2a5ff49c17f9a56e28330f0474a2bb74a30a0-d/test_vma_name 00580000-005a4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 2e075000-2e096000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] c000000000-c000400000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: heap] c000400000-c004000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: heap reservation] 777f40000000-777f40021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: malloc arena] 777f40021000-777f44000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f44000000-777f44021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: malloc arena] 777f44021000-777f48000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f48000000-777f48021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: malloc arena] 777f48021000-777f4c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f4c000000-777f4c021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: malloc arena] 777f4c021000-777f50000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f50000000-777f50021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: malloc arena] 777f50021000-777f54000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f55afb000-777f55afc000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f55afc000-777f562fc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: pthread stack: 216378] 777f562fc000-777f562fd000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f562fd000-777f56afd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: pthread stack: 216377] 777f56afd000-777f56afe000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f56afe000-777f572fe000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: pthread stack: 216376] 777f572fe000-777f572ff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f572ff000-777f57aff000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: pthread stack: 216375] 777f57aff000-777f57b00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 777f57b00000-777f58300000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: pthread stack: 216374] 777f58300000-777f58400000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc index] 777f58400000-777f5a400000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: heap index] 777f5a400000-777f6a580000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: scavenge index] 777f6a580000-777f6a581000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: scavenge index] 777f6a581000-777f7a400000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: scavenge index] 777f7a400000-777f8a580000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f8a580000-777f8a581000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc] 777f8a581000-777f9c430000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f9c430000-777f9c431000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc] 777f9c431000-777f9e806000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f9e806000-777f9e807000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc] 777f9e807000-777f9ec00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f9ec36000-777f9ecb6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: immortal metadata] 777f9ecb6000-777f9ecc6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: gc bits] 777f9ecc6000-777f9ecd6000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: allspans array] 777f9ecd6000-777f9ece7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: immortal metadata] 777f9ece7000-777f9ed67000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f9ed67000-777f9ed68000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc] 777f9ed68000-777f9ede7000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page summary] 777f9ede7000-777f9ee07000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: page alloc] 777f9ee07000-777f9ee0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: loader malloc] 777f9ee0a000-777f9ee2e000 r--p 00000000 00:21 48158213 /usr/lib/libc.so.6 777f9ee2e000-777f9ef9f000 r-xp 00024000 00:21 48158213 /usr/lib/libc.so.6 777f9ef9f000-777f9efee000 r--p 00195000 00:21 48158213 /usr/lib/libc.so.6 777f9efee000-777f9eff2000 r--p 001e3000 00:21 48158213 /usr/lib/libc.so.6 777f9eff2000-777f9eff4000 rw-p 001e7000 00:21 48158213 /usr/lib/libc.so.6 777f9eff4000-777f9effc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 777f9effc000-777f9effe000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: glibc: loader malloc] 777f9f00a000-777f9f04a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [anon: Go: immortal metadata] 777f9f04a000-777f9f04c000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] 777f9f04c000-777f9f04e000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar_vclock] 777f9f04e000-777f9f050000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 777f9f050000-777f9f051000 r--p 00000000 00:21 48158204 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 777f9f051000-777f9f07a000 r-xp 00001000 00:21 48158204 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 777f9f07a000-777f9f085000 r--p 0002a000 00:21 48158204 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 777f9f085000-777f9f087000 r--p 00034000 00:21 48158204 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 777f9f087000-777f9f088000 rw-p 00036000 00:21 48158204 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 777f9f088000-777f9f089000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ffc7bfa7000-7ffc7bfc8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 --xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] The anonymous memory areas are now labelled so that we can see which ones have been allocated by the Go runtime versus which ones have been allocated by the glibc. Fixes #71546 Change-Id: I304e8b4dd7f2477a6da794fd44e9a7a5354e4bf4 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/646095 Auto-Submit: Alan Donovan Commit-Queue: Alan Donovan Reviewed-by: Felix Geisendörfer LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov

runtime: migrate internal/atomic to internal/runtime

2024-03-25T19:53:03Z

For #65355 Change-Id: I65dd090fb99de9b231af2112c5ccb0eb635db2be Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/560155 Reviewed-by: David Chase Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Reviewed-by: Ibrahim Bazoka Auto-Submit: Emmanuel Odeke

runtime: use built-in clear to simplify code

2024-03-08T16:28:44Z

Change-Id: Icb6d9ca996b4119d8636d9f7f6a56e510d74d059 GitHub-Last-Rev: 08178e8ff798f4a51860573788c9347a0fb6bc40 GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#66188 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/569979 Reviewed-by: Keith Randall Reviewed-by: qiulaidongfeng <2645477756@qq.com> LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek Auto-Submit: Keith Randall Reviewed-by: Keith Randall

runtime: call enableMetadataHugePages and its callees on the systemstack

2023-11-13T14:11:13Z

These functions acquire the heap lock. If they're not called on the systemstack, a stack growth could cause a self-deadlock since stack growth may allocate memory from the page heap. This has been a problem for a while. If this is what's plaguing the ppc64 port right now, it's very surprising (and probably just coincidental) that it's showing up now. For #64050. For #64062. Fixes #64067. Change-Id: I2b95dc134d17be63b9fe8f7a3370fe5b5438682f Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/541635 LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek Auto-Submit: Michael Knyszek TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt Reviewed-by: Paul Murphy

runtime: use max/min func

2023-10-24T20:28:25Z

Change-Id: I3f0b7209621b39cee69566a5cc95e4343b4f1f20 GitHub-Last-Rev: af9dbbe69ad74e8c210254dafa260a886b690853 GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#63321 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/531916 LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI Reviewed-by: Keith Randall Reviewed-by: Mauri de Souza Meneguzzo Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov Reviewed-by: Keith Randall

runtime: avoid MADV_HUGEPAGE for heap memory

2023-08-22T19:05:10Z

Currently the runtime marks all new memory as MADV_HUGEPAGE on Linux and manages its hugepage eligibility status. Unfortunately, the default THP behavior on most Linux distros is that MADV_HUGEPAGE blocks while the kernel eagerly reclaims and compacts memory to allocate a hugepage. This direct reclaim and compaction is unbounded, and may result in significant application thread stalls. In really bad cases, this can exceed 100s of ms or even seconds. Really all we want is to undo MADV_NOHUGEPAGE marks and let the default Linux paging behavior take over, but the only way to unmark a region as MADV_NOHUGEPAGE is to also mark it MADV_HUGEPAGE. The overall strategy of trying to keep hugepages for the heap unbroken however is sound. So instead let's use the new shiny MADV_COLLAPSE if it exists. MADV_COLLAPSE makes a best-effort synchronous attempt at collapsing the physical memory backing a memory region into a hugepage. We'll use MADV_COLLAPSE where we would've used MADV_HUGEPAGE, and stop using MADV_NOHUGEPAGE altogether. Because MADV_COLLAPSE is synchronous, it's also important to not re-collapse huge pages if the huge pages are likely part of some large allocation. Although in many cases it's advantageous to back these allocations with hugepages because they're contiguous, eagerly collapsing every hugepage means having to page in at least part of the large allocation. However, because we won't use MADV_NOHUGEPAGE anymore, we'll no longer handle the fact that khugepaged might come in and back some memory we returned to the OS with a hugepage. I've come to the conclusion that this is basically unavoidable without a new madvise flag and that it's just not a good default. If this change lands, advice about Linux huge page settings will be added to the GC guide. Verified that this change doesn't regress Sweet, at least not on my machine with: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled [always or madvise] /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag [madvise] /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none [0 or 511] Unfortunately, this workaround means that we only get forced hugepages on Linux 6.1+. Fixes #61718. Change-Id: I7f4a7ba397847de29f800a99f9cb66cb2720a533 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/516795 Reviewed-by: Austin Clements TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek Auto-Submit: Michael Knyszek

runtime: add eager scavenging details to GODEBUG=scavtrace=1

2023-05-19T13:38:43Z

Also, clean up atomics on released-per-cycle while we're here. For #57069. Change-Id: I14026e8281f01dea1e8c8de6aa8944712b7b24d9 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/495916 Reviewed-by: Michael Pratt Run-TryBot: Michael Knyszek TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot