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Even though the private pointers does not * point to a GC thing, changing the private pointer may change the set of * objects that are traced by the GC. Therefore it needs a write barrier. * * Every barriered write should have the following form: * * obj->field = value; // do the actual write * * The pre-barrier is used for incremental GC and the post-barrier is for * generational GC. * * PRE-BARRIER * * To understand the pre-barrier, let's consider how incremental GC works. The * GC itself is divided into "slices". Between each slice, JS code is allowed to * run. Each slice should be short so that the user doesn't notice the * interruptions. In our GC, the structure of the slices is as follows: * * 1. ... JS work, which leads to a request to do GC ... * 2. [first GC slice, which performs all root marking and possibly more marking] * 3. ... more JS work is allowed to run ... * 4. [GC mark slice, which runs entirely in drainMarkStack] * 5. ... more JS work ... * 6. [GC mark slice, which runs entirely in drainMarkStack] * 7. ... more JS work ... * 8. [GC marking finishes; sweeping done non-incrementally; GC is done] * 9. ... JS continues uninterrupted now that GC is finishes ... * * Of course, there may be a different number of slices depending on how much * marking is to be done. * * The danger inherent in this scheme is that the JS code in steps 3, 5, and 7 * might change the heap in a way that causes the GC to collect an object that * is actually reachable. The write barrier prevents this from happening. We use * a variant of incremental GC called "snapshot at the beginning." This approach * guarantees the invariant that if an object is reachable in step 2, then we * will mark it eventually. The name comes from the idea that we take a * theoretical "snapshot" of all reachable objects in step 2; all objects in * that snapshot should eventually be marked. (Note that the write barrier * verifier code takes an actual snapshot.) * * The basic correctness invariant of a snapshot-at-the-beginning collector is * that any object reachable at the end of the GC (step 9) must either: * (1) have been reachable at the beginning (step 2) and thus in the snapshot * (2) or must have been newly allocated, in steps 3, 5, or 7. * To deal with case (2), any objects allocated during an incremental GC are * automatically marked black. * * This strategy is actually somewhat conservative: if an object becomes * unreachable between steps 2 and 8, it would be safe to collect it. We won't, * mainly for simplicity. (Also, note that the snapshot is entirely * theoretical. We don't actually do anything special in step 2 that we wouldn't * do in a non-incremental GC. * * It's the pre-barrier's job to maintain the snapshot invariant. Consider the * write "obj->field = value". Let the prior value of obj->field be * value0. Since it's possible that value0 may have been what obj->field * contained in step 2, when the snapshot was taken, the barrier marks * value0. Note that it only does this if we're in the middle of an incremental * GC. Since this is rare, the cost of the write barrier is usually just an * extra branch. * * In practice, we implement the pre-barrier differently based on the type of * value0. E.g., see JSObject::writeBarrierPre, which is used if obj->field is * a JSObject*. It takes value0 as a parameter. * * POST-BARRIER * * These are not yet implemented. Once we get generational GC, they will allow * us to keep track of pointers from non-nursery space into the nursery. * * IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS * * Since it would be awkward to change every write to memory into a function * call, this file contains a bunch of C++ classes and templates that use * operator overloading to take care of barriers automatically. In many cases, * all that's necessary to make some field be barriered is to replace * Type *field; * with * HeapPtr field; * There are also special classes HeapValue and HeapId, which barrier js::Value * and jsid, respectively. * * One additional note: not all object writes need to be barriered. Writes to * newly allocated objects do not need a barrier as long as the GC is not * allowed to run in between the allocation and the write. In these cases, we * use the "obj->field.init(value)" method instead of "obj->field = value". * We use the init naming idiom in many places to signify that a field is being * assigned for the first time, and that no GCs have taken place between the * object allocation and the assignment. */ namespace js { /* * Ideally, we would like to make the argument to functions like MarkShape be a * HeapPtr. That would ensure that we don't forget to * barrier any fields that we mark through. However, that would prohibit us from * passing in a derived class like HeapPtr. * * To overcome the problem, we make the argument to MarkShape be a * MarkablePtr. And we allow conversions from HeapPtr * to MarkablePtr as long as T can be converted to U. */ template class MarkablePtr { public: T *value; explicit MarkablePtr(T *value) : value(value) {} }; template class HeapPtr { union { T *value; Unioned other; }; public: HeapPtr() : value(NULL) {} explicit HeapPtr(T *v) : value(v) { post(); } explicit HeapPtr(const HeapPtr &v) : value(v.value) { post(); } ~HeapPtr() { pre(); } /* Use this to install a ptr into a newly allocated object. */ void init(T *v) { JS_ASSERT(!IsPoisonedPtr(v)); value = v; post(); } /* Use to set the pointer to NULL. */ void clear() { pre(); value = NULL; } /* Use this if the automatic coercion to T* isn't working. */ T *get() const { return value; } /* * Use these if you want to change the value without invoking the barrier. * Obviously this is dangerous unless you know the barrier is not needed. */ T **unsafeGet() { return &value; } void unsafeSet(T *v) { value = v; } Unioned *unsafeGetUnioned() { return &other; } HeapPtr &operator=(T *v) { pre(); JS_ASSERT(!IsPoisonedPtr(v)); value = v; post(); return *this; } HeapPtr &operator=(const HeapPtr &v) { pre(); JS_ASSERT(!IsPoisonedPtr(v.value)); value = v.value; post(); return *this; } T &operator*() const { return *value; } T *operator->() const { return value; } operator T*() const { return value; } /* * This coerces to MarkablePtr as long as T can coerce to U. See the * comment for MarkablePtr above. */ template operator MarkablePtr() const { return MarkablePtr(value); } private: void pre() { T::writeBarrierPre(value); } void post() { T::writeBarrierPost(value, (void *)&value); } /* Make this friend so it can access pre() and post(). */ template friend inline void BarrieredSetPair(JSCompartment *comp, HeapPtr &v1, T1 *val1, HeapPtr &v2, T2 *val2); }; /* * This is a hack for RegExpStatics::updateFromMatch. It allows us to do two * barriers with only one branch to check if we're in an incremental GC. */ template static inline void BarrieredSetPair(JSCompartment *comp, HeapPtr &v1, T1 *val1, HeapPtr &v2, T2 *val2) { if (T1::needWriteBarrierPre(comp)) { v1.pre(); v2.pre(); } v1.unsafeSet(val1); v2.unsafeSet(val2); v1.post(); v2.post(); } typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrObject; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrFunction; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrString; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrScript; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrShape; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrBaseShape; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrTypeObject; typedef HeapPtr HeapPtrXML; /* Useful for hashtables with a HeapPtr as key. */ template struct HeapPtrHasher { typedef HeapPtr Key; typedef T *Lookup; static HashNumber hash(Lookup obj) { return DefaultHasher::hash(obj); } static bool match(const Key &k, Lookup l) { return k.get() == l; } }; /* Specialized hashing policy for HeapPtrs. */ template struct DefaultHasher< HeapPtr >: HeapPtrHasher { }; class HeapValue { Value value; public: explicit HeapValue() : value(UndefinedValue()) {} explicit inline HeapValue(const Value &v); explicit inline HeapValue(const HeapValue &v); inline ~HeapValue(); inline void init(const Value &v); inline void init(JSCompartment *comp, const Value &v); inline HeapValue &operator=(const Value &v); inline HeapValue &operator=(const HeapValue &v); /* * This is a faster version of operator=. Normally, operator= has to * determine the compartment of the value before it can decide whether to do * the barrier. If you already know the compartment, it's faster to pass it * in. */ inline void set(JSCompartment *comp, const Value &v); const Value &get() const { return value; } operator const Value &() const { return value; } bool isMarkable() const { return value.isMarkable(); } bool isMagic(JSWhyMagic why) const { return value.isMagic(why); } bool isUndefined() const { return value.isUndefined(); } bool isObject() const { return value.isObject(); } bool isGCThing() const { return value.isGCThing(); } bool isTrue() const { return value.isTrue(); } bool isFalse() const { return value.isFalse(); } bool isInt32() const { return value.isInt32(); } bool isNull() const { return value.isNull(); } JSObject &toObject() const { return value.toObject(); } JSObject *toObjectOrNull() const { return value.toObjectOrNull(); } void *toGCThing() const { return value.toGCThing(); } double toDouble() const { return value.toDouble(); } int32_t toInt32() const { return value.toInt32(); } JSString *toString() const { return value.toString(); } bool toBoolean() const { return value.toBoolean(); } double toNumber() const { return value.toNumber(); } JSGCTraceKind gcKind() const { return value.gcKind(); } #ifdef DEBUG JSWhyMagic whyMagic() const { return value.whyMagic(); } #endif static inline void writeBarrierPre(const Value &v); static inline void writeBarrierPost(const Value &v, void *addr); static inline void writeBarrierPre(JSCompartment *comp, const Value &v); static inline void writeBarrierPost(JSCompartment *comp, const Value &v, void *addr); private: inline void pre(); inline void post(); inline void pre(JSCompartment *comp); inline void post(JSCompartment *comp); }; static inline const Value * Valueify(const HeapValue *array) { JS_ASSERT(sizeof(HeapValue) == sizeof(Value)); return (const Value *)array; } class HeapValueArray { HeapValue *array; public: HeapValueArray(HeapValue *array) : array(array) {} operator const Value *() const { return Valueify(array); } operator HeapValue *() const { return array; } HeapValueArray operator +(int offset) const { return HeapValueArray(array + offset); } HeapValueArray operator +(uint32_t offset) const { return HeapValueArray(array + offset); } }; class HeapId { jsid value; public: explicit HeapId() : value(JSID_VOID) {} explicit inline HeapId(jsid id); inline ~HeapId(); inline void init(jsid id); inline HeapId &operator=(jsid id); inline HeapId &operator=(const HeapId &v); bool operator==(jsid id) const { return value == id; } bool operator!=(jsid id) const { return value != id; } jsid get() const { return value; } operator jsid() const { return value; } private: inline void pre(); inline void post(); HeapId(const HeapId &v); }; /* * Incremental GC requires that weak pointers have read barriers. This is mostly * an issue for empty shapes stored in JSCompartment. The problem happens when, * during an incremental GC, some JS code stores one of the compartment's empty * shapes into an object already marked black. Normally, this would not be a * problem, because the empty shape would have been part of the initial snapshot * when the GC started. However, since this is a weak pointer, it isn't. So we * may collect the empty shape even though a live object points to it. To fix * this, we mark these empty shapes black whenever they get read out. */ template class ReadBarriered { T *value; public: ReadBarriered() : value(NULL) {} ReadBarriered(T *value) : value(value) {} T *get() const { if (!value) return NULL; T::readBarrier(value); return value; } operator T*() const { return get(); } T &operator*() const { return *get(); } T *operator->() const { return get(); } T *unsafeGet() { return value; } void set(T *v) { value = v; } operator bool() { return !!value; } template operator MarkablePtr() const { return MarkablePtr(value); } }; } #endif /* jsgc_barrier_h___ */