This PR moves `rb_copy_wb_protected_attribute` and
`rb_gc_copy_finalizer` into a single function called
`rb_gc_copy_attributes` to be called by `init_copy`. This reduces the
surface area of the GC API.
Co-authored-by: Peter Zhu <peter@peterzhu.ca>
I was trying to debug an (unrelated) issue in the GC, and wanted to turn
on the trace-level GC output by compiling it with -DRGENGC_DEBUG=5.
Unfortunately, this actually causes a crash in newobj_init() because the
code there tries to log the obj_info() of the newly created object.
However, the object is not actually sufficiently set up for some of the
things that obj_info() tries to do:
* The instance variable table for a class is not yet initialized, and
when using variable-length RVALUES, said ivar table is embedded in
as-yet unitialized memory after the struct RValue. Attempting to read
this, as obj_info() does, causes a crash.
* T_DATA variables need to dereference their ->type field to print out
the underlying C type name, which is not set up until newobj_fill() is
called.
To fix this, create a new method `obj_info_basic`, which dumps out only
the parts of the object that are valid before the object is fully
initialized.
[Fixes#18795]
When generic instance variable has a shape, it is marked movable. If it
it transitions to too complex, it needs to update references otherwise
it may have incorrect references.
If we're during incremental marking, then Ruby code can execute that
deallocates certain memory buffers that have been called with
rb_gc_mark_weak, which can cause use-after-free bugs.
This is an internal only function not exposed to the C extension API.
It's only use so far is from rb_vm_mark, where it's used to mark the
values in the vm->trap_list.cmd array.
There shouldn't be any reason why these cannot move.
This commit allows them to move by updating their references during the
reference updating step of compaction.
To do this we've introduced another internal function
rb_gc_update_values as a partner to rb_gc_mark_values.
This allows us to refactor rb_gc_mark_values to not pin
[Feature #19783]
This commit adds support for weak references in the GC through the
function `rb_gc_mark_weak`. Unlike strong references, weak references
does not mark the object, but rather lets the GC know that an object
refers to another one. If the child object is freed, the pointer from
the parent object is overwritten with `Qundef`.
Co-Authored-By: Jean Boussier <byroot@ruby-lang.org>
[Feature #18885]
For now, the optimizations performed are:
- Run a major GC
- Compact the heap
- Promote all surviving objects to oldgen
Other optimizations may follow.
Introduce Universal Parser mode for the parser.
This commit includes these changes:
* Introduce `UNIVERSAL_PARSER` macro. All of CRuby related functions
are passed via `struct rb_parser_config_struct` when this macro is enabled.
* Add CI task with 'cppflags=-DUNIVERSAL_PARSER' for ubuntu.
Remove !USE_RVARGC code
[Feature #19579]
The Variable Width Allocation feature was turned on by default in Ruby
3.2. Since then, we haven't received bug reports or backports to the
non-Variable Width Allocation code paths, so we assume that nobody is
using it. We also don't plan on maintaining the non-Variable Width
Allocation code, so we are going to remove it.
[Feature #18885]
For now, the optimizations performed are:
- Run a major GC
- Compact the heap
- Promote all surviving objects to oldgen
Other optimizations may follow.
These classes don't belong in gc.c as they're not actually part of the
GC. This commit refactors the code by moving all the code into a
weakmap.c file.
This commit adds rb_gc_mark_and_move which takes a pointer to an object
and marks it during marking phase and updates references during compaction.
This allows for marking and reference updating to be combined into a
single function, which reduces code duplication and prevents bugs if
marking and reference updating goes out of sync.
This commit also implements rb_gc_mark_and_move on iseq as an example.
SIZE_POOL_COUNT is a GC macro, it should belong in gc.h and not shape.h.
SIZE_POOL_COUNT doesn't depend on shape.h so we can have shape.h depend
on gc.h.
Co-Authored-By: Matt Valentine-House <matt@eightbitraptor.com>
When an object becomes "too complex" (in other words it has too many
variations in the shape tree), we transition it to use a "too complex"
shape and use a hash for storing instance variables.
Without this patch, there were rare cases where shape tree growth could
"explode" and cause performance degradation on what would otherwise have
been cached fast paths.
This patch puts a limit on shape tree growth, and gracefully degrades in
the rare case where there could be a factorial growth in the shape tree.
For example:
```ruby
class NG; end
HUGE_NUMBER.times do
NG.new.instance_variable_set(:"@unique_ivar_#{_1}", 1)
end
```
We consider objects to be "too complex" when the object's class has more
than SHAPE_MAX_VARIATIONS (currently 8) leaf nodes in the shape tree and
the object introduces a new variation (a new leaf node) associated with
that class.
For example, new variations on instances of the following class would be
considered "too complex" because those instances create more than 8
leaves in the shape tree:
```ruby
class Foo; end
9.times { Foo.new.instance_variable_set(":@uniq_#{_1}", 1) }
```
However, the following class is *not* too complex because it only has
one leaf in the shape tree:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
@a = @b = @c = @d = @e = @f = @g = @h = @i = nil
end
end
9.times { Foo.new }
``
This case is rare, so we don't expect this change to impact performance
of most applications, but it needs to be handled.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
This commit adds a `capacity` field to shapes, and adds shape
transitions whenever an object's capacity changes. Objects which are
allocated out of a bigger size pool will also make a transition from the
root shape to the shape with the correct capacity for their size pool
when they are allocated.
This commit will allow us to remove numiv from objects completely, and
will also mean we can guarantee that if two objects share shapes, their
IVs are in the same positions (an embedded and extended object cannot
share shapes). This will enable us to implement ivar sets in YJIT using
object shapes.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Having more size pools will allow us to allocate larger objects
through Variable Width Allocation.
I have attached some benchmark results below.
Discourse:
On Discourse, we don't see much change in response times. We do see
a small reduction in RSS.
Branch RSS: 377.8 MB
Master RSS: 396.3 MB
railsbench:
On railsbench, we don't see a big change in RPS or p99 performance.
We see a small increase in RSS.
Branch RPS: 815.38
Master RPS: 811.73
Branch p99: 1.69 ms
Master p99: 1.68 ms
Branch RSS: 90.6 MB
Master RSS: 89.4 MB
liquid:
We don't see a significant change in liquid performance.
Branch parse & render: 29.041 I/s
Master parse & render: 29.211 I/s
Currently, the number of incremental marking steps is calculated based
on the number of pooled pages available. This means that if we make Ruby
heap pages larger, it would run fewer incremental marking steps (which
would mean each incremental marking step takes longer).
This commit changes incremental marking to run after every
INCREMENTAL_MARK_STEP_ALLOCATIONS number of allocations. This means that
the behaviour of incremental marking remains the same regardless of the
Ruby heap page size.
I've benchmarked against discourse benchmarks and did not get a
significant change in response times beyond the margin of error. This is
expected as this new incremental marking algorithm behaves very
similarly to the previous one.
