corda/include/avian/vm/heap/heap.h
Joel Dice 3c44cdc50b fix unintentionally retained finalizables and improve low mem performance
Objects which are eligable for finalization must be retained until
after their finalize methods are called.  However, the VM must
determine the entire set of such objects before retaining any of them;
otherwise the process of retaining a given object may cause others to
become reachable and thus be considered ineligible for finalization
even though they are only reachable via other finalizable objects.
The end result of this mistake is that only a few of the objects which
are finalizable will be recognized at each GC cycle, so it requires
many such cycles to find them all, and if new objects become
finalizable at a faster rate, the VM will never catch up and
eventually run out of memory.

This patch fixes the above mistake and also includes tuning to
minimize the need for GC in low memory situations.
2013-03-07 20:32:02 -07:00

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/* Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Avian Contributors
Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software
for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided
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There is NO WARRANTY for this software. See license.txt for
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#ifndef HEAP_H
#define HEAP_H
#include <avian/vm/system/system.h>
#include "avian/allocator.h"
namespace vm {
// an object must survive TenureThreshold + 2 garbage collections
// before being copied to gen2 (must be at least 1):
const unsigned TenureThreshold = 3;
const unsigned FixieTenureThreshold = TenureThreshold + 2;
class Heap: public Allocator {
public:
enum CollectionType {
MinorCollection,
MajorCollection
};
enum Status {
Null,
Reachable,
Unreachable,
Tenured
};
class Visitor {
public:
virtual void visit(void*) = 0;
};
class Walker {
public:
virtual bool visit(unsigned) = 0;
};
class Client {
public:
virtual void collect(void* context, CollectionType type) = 0;
virtual void visitRoots(Visitor*) = 0;
virtual bool isFixed(void*) = 0;
virtual unsigned sizeInWords(void*) = 0;
virtual unsigned copiedSizeInWords(void*) = 0;
virtual void copy(void*, void*) = 0;
virtual void walk(void*, Walker*) = 0;
};
virtual void setClient(Client* client) = 0;
virtual void setImmortalHeap(uintptr_t* start, unsigned sizeInWords) = 0;
virtual unsigned limit() = 0;
virtual bool limitExceeded(int pendingAllocation = 0) = 0;
virtual void collect(CollectionType type, unsigned footprint,
int pendingAllocation) = 0;
virtual unsigned fixedFootprint(unsigned sizeInWords, bool objectMask) = 0;
virtual void* allocateFixed(Allocator* allocator, unsigned sizeInWords,
bool objectMask) = 0;
virtual void* allocateImmortalFixed(Allocator* allocator,
unsigned sizeInWords,
bool objectMask) = 0;
virtual void mark(void* p, unsigned offset, unsigned count) = 0;
virtual void pad(void* p) = 0;
virtual void* follow(void* p) = 0;
virtual void postVisit() = 0;
virtual Status status(void* p) = 0;
virtual CollectionType collectionType() = 0;
virtual void disposeFixies() = 0;
virtual void dispose() = 0;
};
Heap* makeHeap(System* system, unsigned limit);
} // namespace vm
#endif//HEAP_H