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| author | Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp> | 2003-03-09 19:43:05 +0000 | 
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| committer | Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp> | 2003-03-09 19:43:05 +0000 | 
| commit | 1dff73dfd6accb9bae971dd0f1ce15a182b0f75b (patch) | |
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| diff --git a/gc/doc/barrett_diagram b/gc/doc/barrett_diagram deleted file mode 100644 index 27e80dc..0000000 --- a/gc/doc/barrett_diagram +++ /dev/null @@ -1,106 +0,0 @@ -This is an ASCII diagram of the data structure used to check pointer -validity.  It was provided by Dave Barrett <barrett@asgard.cs.colorado.edu>, -and should be of use to others attempting to understand the code. -The data structure in GC4.X is essentially the same.   -HB - - - - -		Data Structure used by GC_base in gc3.7: -			      21-Apr-94 -			  -			 - - -    63                  LOG_TOP_SZ[11]  LOG_BOTTOM_SZ[10]   LOG_HBLKSIZE[13] -   +------------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+ - p:|                  |   TL_HASH(hi)  |                  |   HBLKDISPL(p)   | -   +------------------+----------------+------------------+------------------+ -    \-----------------------HBLKPTR(p)-------------------/ -    \------------hi-------------------/  -                      \______ ________/ \________ _______/ \________ _______/ -                             V                   V                  V -                             |                   |                  | -           GC_top_index[]    |                   |                  |  - ---      +--------------+   |                   |                  |   -  ^       |              |   |                   |                  |    -  |       |              |   |                   |                  |    - TOP      +--------------+<--+                   |                  |       - _SZ   +-<|      []      | *                     |                  |      -(items)|  +--------------+  if 0 < bi< HBLKSIZE  |                  |     -  |    |  |              | then large object     |                  |     -  |    |  |              | starts at the bi'th   |                  |     -  v    |  |              | HBLK before p.        |             i    |     - ---   |  +--------------+                       |          (word-  |     -       v                                         |         aligned) |     -   bi= |GET_BI(p){->hash_link}->key==hi          |                  |    -       v                                         |                  |     -       |   (bottom_index)  \ scratch_alloc'd     |                  |     -       |   ( struct  bi )  / by get_index()      |                  |     - ---   +->+--------------+                       |                  |     -  ^       |              |                       |                  | -  ^       |              |                       |                  | - BOTTOM   |              |   ha=GET_HDR_ADDR(p)  |                  | -_SZ(items)+--------------+<----------------------+          +-------+ -  |   +--<|   index[]    |                                  |          -  |   |   +--------------+                      GC_obj_map: v               -  |   |   |              |              from      / +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+  ---  -  v   |   |              |              GC_add   < 0| | |     | | | | |   ^   - ---  |   +--------------+             _map_entry \ +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+   |   -      |   |   asc_link   |                          +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+ MAXOBJSZ -      |   +--------------+                      +-->| | |  j  | | | | |  +1    -      |   |     key      |                      |   +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+   |   -      |   +--------------+                      |   +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+   |  -      |   |  hash_link   |                      |   | | |     | | | | |   v  -      |   +--------------+                      |   +-+-+-----+-+-+-+-+  --- -      |                                         |   |<--MAX_OFFSET--->|    -      |                                         |         (bytes) -HDR(p)| GC_find_header(p)                       |   |<--MAP_ENTRIES-->|  -      |                           \ from        |    =HBLKSIZE/WORDSZ    -      |    (hdr) (struct hblkhdr) / alloc_hdr() |    (1024 on Alpha) -      +-->+----------------------+              |    (8/16 bits each) -GET_HDR(p)| word   hb_sz (words) |              |           -          +----------------------+              |      -          | struct hblk *hb_next |              | -          +----------------------+              |        -          |mark_proc hb_mark_proc|              | -          +----------------------+              | -          | char * hb_map        |>-------------+ -          +----------------------+            -          | ushort hb_obj_kind   |            -          +----------------------+            -          |   hb_last_reclaimed  |            - ---      +----------------------+                 -  ^       |                      | - MARK_BITS|       hb_marks[]     | *if hdr is free, hb_sz + DISCARD_WORDS -_SZ(words)|                      |  is the size of a heap chunk (struct hblk) -  v       |                      |  of at least MININCR*HBLKSIZE bytes (below), - ---      +----------------------+  otherwise, size of each object in chunk. - -Dynamic data structures above are interleaved throughout the heap in blocks of  -size MININCR * HBLKSIZE bytes as done by gc_scratch_alloc which cannot be -freed; free lists are used (e.g. alloc_hdr).  HBLKs's below are collected. - -	      (struct hblk)       - ---      +----------------------+ < HBLKSIZE ---         ---          DISCARD_ -  ^       |garbage[DISCARD_WORDS]|   aligned   ^           ^ HDR_BYTES WORDS -  |       |                      |             |           v (bytes)   (words) -  |       +-----hb_body----------+ < WORDSZ    |          ---   ---    -  |       |                      |   aligned   |           ^     ^ -  |       |      Object 0        |             |           hb_sz | -  |       |                      |           i |(word-    (words)| -  |       |                      |      (bytes)|aligned)   v     | -  |       + - - - - - - - - - - -+ ---         |          ---    | -  |       |                      |  ^          |           ^     | -  n *     |                      |  j (words)  |          hb_sz BODY_SZ  - HBLKSIZE |      Object 1        |  v          v           |   (words) - (bytes)  |                      |---------------          v   MAX_OFFSET -  |       + - - - - - - - - - - -+                        ---  (bytes) -  |       |                      | !All_INTERIOR_PTRS      ^     | -  |       |                      | sets j only for       hb_sz   | -  |       |      Object N        | valid object offsets.   |     | -  v       |                      | All objects WORDSZ      v     v - ---      +----------------------+ aligned.               ---   --- - -DISCARD_WORDS is normally zero.  Indeed the collector has not been tested -with another value in ages. | 
