We have name fragmentation for this feature, including "shared GC",
"modular GC", and "external GC". This commit standardizes the feature
name to "modular GC" and the implementation to "GC library".
Let there be rooms for each GC implementations how to handle multi
threaded situations. They can be totally reentrant, or can have
their own mutex, or can rely on rb_thread_call_with_gvl.
In any ways the allocator (has been, but now officially is)
expected to run properly without a GVL. This means there need be
a way for them to inform the interpreter about their allocation
failures, without relying on raising exceptions.
Let them do so by returning NULL.
So that it doesn't get included in the generated binaries for builds
that don't support loading shared GC modules
Co-Authored-By: Peter Zhu <peter@peterzhu.ca>
```
compiling gc.c
In file included from gc.c:80:
/usr/include/sys/prctl.h:88:8: error: redefinition of 'struct prctl_mm_map'
88 | struct prctl_mm_map {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from gc.c:79:
/usr/include/linux/prctl.h:134:8: note: originally defined here
134 | struct prctl_mm_map {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
```
The first include is not needed and is what causes this issue.
Two other places in ruby exclusively use the sys import.
See https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp/issues/19 for a similar problem.
Use PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME to set human-readable names for anonymous
virtual memory areas mapped by `mmap()` when compiled and run on Linux
5.17 or higher. This makes it convenient for developers to debug mmap.
This avoids the need to malloc, and reduces the complexity of truncating
the long string for display in RUBY_DESCRIPTION.
The developer of a GC implementation should be responsible for giving it
a succinct name.
This will add +MOD_GC to the version string and Ruby description when
Ruby is compiled with shared gc support.
When shared GC support is compiled in and a GC module has been loaded
using RUBY_GC_LIBRARY, the version string will include the name of
the currently active GC as reported by the rb_gc_active_gc_name function
in the form
+MOD_GC[gc_name]
[Feature #20794]
And a default and readonly key to the GC.config hash that names the
current GC implementation.
This is provided by each implementation by the API function
rb_gc_impl_active_gc_name
Instead of passing the full GC SO file name to RUBY_GC_LIBRARY, we now
only need to pass the GC name.
For example, before we needed to pass `RUBY_GC_LIBRARY=librubygc.default.so`
but now we only need to pass `RUBY_GC_LIBRARY=default`.
Now that we've inlined the eden_heap into the size_pool, we should
rename the size_pool to heap. So that Ruby contains multiple heaps, with
different sized objects.
The term heap as a collection of memory pages is more in memory
management nomenclature, whereas size_pool was a name chosen out of
necessity during the development of the Variable Width Allocation
features of Ruby.
The concept of size pools was introduced in order to facilitate
different sized objects (other than the default 40 bytes). They wrapped
the eden heap and the tomb heap, and some related state, and provided a
reasonably simple way of duplicating all related concerns, to provide
multiple pools that all shared the same structure but held different
objects.
Since then various changes have happend in Ruby's memory layout:
* The concept of tomb heaps has been replaced by a global free pages list,
with each page having it's slot size reconfigured at the point when it
is resurrected
* the eden heap has been inlined into the size pool itself, so that now
the size pool directly controls the free_pages list, the sweeping
page, the compaction cursor and the other state that was previously
being managed by the eden heap.
Now that there is no need for a heap wrapper, we should refer to the
collection of pages containing Ruby objects as a heap again rather than
a size pool
If we are during heap traversal, we don't want to call rb_gc_impl_mark_weak.
This commit moves that check from rb_gc_impl_mark_weak to rb_gc_mark_weak.
Allow objects that are not of type `RTypedData` to use the default
free function, as `RTYPEDDATA_EMBEDDED_P` can return a false positive
when casting non-`RTypedData` objects.
