From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC and stack marking
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 20:12:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537D6B2D.90208@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r43mmt25.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 05/21/2014 07:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 16:49:22 -0400
>> From: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Even if we're only talking about the stack variables in the frames that are
>> active during your particular problematic case (and perhaps in the idle
>> Emacs GC case)?
>
> I thought you were asking about having the compiler generate the code
> to do that, which would then happen everywhere.
>
> If you propose doing that selectively, I don't know how this would be
> possible, since on the C level you don't have a way of telling how
> much stack is allocated in a given function.
>
>> Have you already ruled out whether stack_top_variable contributes one of
>> the bytes in your false positive lookup in the mem_node tree?
>
> Yes. I looked at all the local variables in that stack frame, and
> their addresses on the stack are different from the one that triggers
> the problem.
What about cleaning the stack (memset from the top to the high water
mark) every once in a while?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 19:31 GC and stack marking Barry OReilly
2014-05-21 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 20:49 ` Barry OReilly
2014-05-22 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 3:12 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2014-05-22 5:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-22 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-22 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 14:59 ` Barry OReilly
2014-05-22 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-05-19 16:31 Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 18:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-19 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 19:58 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-19 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 20:17 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-20 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-20 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-20 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 3:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 15:57 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-05-21 16:06 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-05-21 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-21 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-24 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 19:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-05-20 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-20 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-21 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-31 6:31 ` Florian Weimer
2014-05-31 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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