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Austin Clements authored
Currently it's possible for user code to exploit the high scheduler priority of the GC worker in conjunction with the runnext optimization to elevate a user goroutine to high priority so it will always run even if there are other runnable goroutines. For example, if a goroutine is in a tight allocation loop, the following can happen: 1. Goroutine 1 allocates, triggering a GC. 2. G 1 attempts an assist, but fails and blocks. 3. The scheduler runs the GC worker, since it is high priority. Note that this also starts a new scheduler quantum. 4. The GC worker does enough work to satisfy the assist. 5. The GC worker readies G 1, putting it in runnext. 6. GC finishes and the scheduler runs G 1 from runnext, giving it the rest of the GC worker's quantum. 7. Go to 1. Even if there are other goroutines on the run queue, they never get a chance to run in the above sequence. This requires a confluence of circumstances that make it unlikely, though not impossible, that it would happen in "real" code. In the test added by this commit, we force this confluence by setting GOMAXPROCS to 1 and GOGC to 1 so it's easy for the test to repeated trigger GC and wake from a blocked assist. We fix this by making GC always put user goroutines at the end of the run queue, instead of in runnext. This makes it so user code can't piggy-back on the GC's high priority to make a user goroutine act like it has high priority. The only other situation where GC wakes user goroutines is waking all blocked assists at the end, but this uses the global run queue and hence doesn't have this problem. Fixes #15706. Change-Id: I1589dee4b7b7d0c9c8575ed3472226084dfce8bc Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/23172Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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