commit d3ffc975f38890abbd8ca3f7833772e6423297e8 [browse]
Author: Russ Cox
Date: 2015-07-29 19:04:35 -04:00

runtime: set invalidptr=1 by default, as documented

Also make invalidptr control the recently added GC pointer check,
as documented.

Change-Id: Iccfdf49480219d12be8b33b8f03d8312d8ceabed
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12857
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>

commit e4bd8e04087ac9e7c8b754df2d01ff7dddb13ba6 [browse]
Author: Andrew Gerrand
Date: 2015-07-30 08:27:56 +10:00

doc: remove non-answer from FAQ

Change-Id: Ie43986d016e5a9fb17ca1393263932bbb56e81ff
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12836
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>

commit bd5ca22232d67810d9996aa9c67059e20253e6f8 [browse]
Author: Russ Cox
Date: 2015-07-28 13:37:13 -04:00

runtime/trace: remove existing Skips

The skips added in CL 12579, based on incorrect time stamps,
should be sufficient to identify and exclude all the time-related
flakiness on these systems.

If there is other flakiness, we want to find out.

For #10512.

Change-Id: I5b588ac1585b2e9d1d18143520d2d51686b563e3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12746
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>

commit 80c98fa901b2f393ef013ec9074630c948e3f8d4 [browse]
Author: Russ Cox
Date: 2015-07-23 14:01:03 -04:00

runtime/trace: record event sequence numbers explicitly

Nearly all the flaky failures we've seen in trace tests have been
due to the use of time stamps to determine relative event ordering.
This is tricky for many reasons, including:
 - different cores might not have exactly synchronized clocks
 - VMs are worse than real hardware
 - non-x86 chips have different timer resolution than x86 chips
 - on fast systems two events can end up with the same time stamp

Stop trying to make time reliable. It's clearly not going to be for Go 1.5.
Instead, record an explicit event sequence number for ordering.
Using our own counter solves all of the above problems.

The trace still contains time stamps, of course. The sequence number
is just used for ordering.

Should alleviate #10554 somewhat. Then tickDiv can be chosen to
be a useful time unit instead of having to be exact for ordering.

Separating ordering and time stamps lets the trace parser diagnose
systems where the time stamp order and actual order do not match
for one reason or another. This CL adds that check to the end of
trace.Parse, after all other sequence order-based checking.
If that error is found, we skip the test instead of failing it.
Putting the check in trace.Parse means that cmd/trace will pick
up the same check, refusing to display a trace where the time stamps
do not match actual ordering.

Using net/http's BenchmarkClientServerParallel4 on various CPU counts,
not tracing vs tracing:

name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
ClientServerParallel4       50.4µs ± 4%    80.2µs ± 4%  +59.06%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)
ClientServerParallel4-2     33.1µs ± 7%    57.8µs ± 5%  +74.53%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)
ClientServerParallel4-4     18.5µs ± 4%    32.6µs ± 3%  +75.77%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)
ClientServerParallel4-6     12.9µs ± 5%    24.4µs ± 2%  +89.33%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)
ClientServerParallel4-8     11.4µs ± 6%    21.0µs ± 3%  +83.40%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)
ClientServerParallel4-12    14.4µs ± 4%    23.8µs ± 4%  +65.67%        (p=0.000 n=10+10)

Fixes #10512.

Change-Id: I173eecf8191e86feefd728a5aad25bf1bc094b12
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12579
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>

commit fde392623a18ecedd7434db1cf40e82bdd482df9 [browse]
Author: Russ Cox
Date: 2015-07-29 16:16:13 -04:00

runtime: ignore arguments in cgocallback_gofunc frame

Otherwise the GC may see uninitialized memory there,
which might be old pointers that are retained, or it might
trigger the invalid pointer check.

Fixes #11907.

Change-Id: I67e306384a68468eef45da1a8eb5c9df216a77c0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12852
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>