Project

General

Profile

Actions

Bug #17538

closed

Assertion failure when rincgc is turned off

Added by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu) about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
[ruby-core:102071]

Description

Pull request on GitHub.

When compiling with -DUSE_RINCGC=0 (turn off rincgc) and -DRGENGC_CHECK_MODE=1 (turn on assertions), there is an assertion error when running multiple ractors.

Reproduction script (on macOS 11.1):

rs = (1..30).map do |i|
  Ractor.new(i) do |i|
    "r#{i}"
  end
end

Error:

Assertion Failed: ../gc.c:5193:gc_sweep_step:gc_mode(objspace) == gc_mode_sweeping ? heap->free_pages != NULL : 1

This happens because another ractor may be using this page during sweeping, so it appears like the page has free slots but the freelist of the page is empty.

For example, let's say we have pages P1, P2 and ractors R1, R2. Say R1 is using P1 and R2 is using P2. When P2 runs out of space, GC is started. But if nothing is swept in P1 and P1 still has space (in the ractor cache in R1), then free_slots > 0 is true for P1 but heap->free_pages == NULL because the freelist of P2 is null.

Actions #1

Updated by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu) about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|d2ffd269a77021e6507a50995cd4af6eb5e33ea3.


[Fixes #17538] Fix assertion failure when rincgc is turned off

Co-Authored-By: Matt Valentine-House

Actions

Also available in: Atom PDF

Like0
Like0