runtime

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Overview

Package runtime contains operations that interact with Go's runtime system, such as functions to control goroutines. It also includes the low-level type information used by the reflect package; see reflect's documentation for the programmable interface to the run-time type system.

Environment Variables

The following environment variables ($name or %name%, depending on the host operating system) control the run-time behavior of Go programs. The meanings and use may change from release to release.

The GOGC variable sets the initial garbage collection target percentage. A collection is triggered when the ratio of freshly allocated data to live data remaining after the previous collection reaches this percentage. The default is GOGC=100. Setting GOGC=off disables the garbage collector entirely. The runtime/debug package's SetGCPercent function allows changing this percentage at run time. See http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#SetGCPercent.

The GODEBUG variable controls debug output from the runtime. GODEBUG value is a comma-separated list of name=val pairs. Supported names are: 

allocfreetrace: setting allocfreetrace=1 causes every allocation to be
profiled and a stack trace printed on each object's allocation and free.

efence: setting efence=1 causes the allocator to run in a mode
where each object is allocated on a unique page and addresses are
never recycled.

gctrace: setting gctrace=1 causes the garbage collector to emit a single line to standard
error at each collection, summarizing the amount of memory collected and the
length of the pause. Setting gctrace=2 emits the same summary but also
repeats each collection.

gcdead: setting gcdead=1 causes the garbage collector to clobber all stack slots
that it thinks are dead.

scheddetail: setting schedtrace=X and scheddetail=1 causes the scheduler to emit
detailed multiline info every X milliseconds, describing state of the scheduler,
processors, threads and goroutines.

schedtrace: setting schedtrace=X causes the scheduler to emit a single line to standard
error every X milliseconds, summarizing the scheduler state.

The GOMAXPROCS variable limits the number of operating system threads that can execute user-level Go code simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of threads that can be blocked in system calls on behalf of Go code; those do not count against the GOMAXPROCS limit. This package's GOMAXPROCS function queries and changes the limit.

The GOTRACEBACK variable controls the amount of output generated when a Go program fails due to an unrecovered panic or an unexpected runtime condition. By default, a failure prints a stack trace for every extant goroutine, eliding functions internal to the run-time system, and then exits with exit code 2. If GOTRACEBACK=0, the per-goroutine stack traces are omitted entirely. If GOTRACEBACK=1, the default behavior is used. If GOTRACEBACK=2, the per-goroutine stack traces include run-time functions. If GOTRACEBACK=crash, the per-goroutine stack traces include run-time functions, and if possible the program crashes in an operating-specific manner instead of exiting. For example, on Unix systems, the program raises SIGABRT to trigger a core dump.

The GOARCH, GOOS, GOPATH, and GOROOT environment variables complete the set of Go environment variables. They influence the building of Go programs (see http://golang.org/cmd/go and http://golang.org/pkg/go/build). GOARCH, GOOS, and GOROOT are recorded at compile time and made available by constants or functions in this package, but they do not influence the execution of the run-time system.

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Constants

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const Compiler = "gc"

Compiler is the name of the compiler toolchain that built the running binary. Known toolchains are: 

gc      The 5g/6g/8g compiler suite at code.google.com/p/go.
gccgo   The gccgo front end, part of the GCC compiler suite.
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const GOARCH string = theGoarch

GOARCH is the running program's architecture target: 386, amd64, or arm.

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const GOOS string = theGoos

GOOS is the running program's operating system target: one of darwin, freebsd, linux, and so on.

Variables

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var MemProfileRate int = 512 * 1024

MemProfileRate controls the fraction of memory allocations that are recorded and reported in the memory profile. The profiler aims to sample an average of one allocation per MemProfileRate bytes allocated.

To include every allocated block in the profile, set MemProfileRate to 1. To turn off profiling entirely, set MemProfileRate to 0.

The tools that process the memory profiles assume that the profile rate is constant across the lifetime of the program and equal to the current value. Programs that change the memory profiling rate should do so just once, as early as possible in the execution of the program (for example, at the beginning of main).

Functions

func BlockProfile added in go1.1 

func BlockProfile(p []BlockProfileRecord) (n int, ok bool)

BlockProfile returns n, the number of records in the current blocking profile. If len(p) >= n, BlockProfile copies the profile into p and returns n, true. If len(p) < n, BlockProfile does not change p and returns n, false.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package or the testing package's -test.blockprofile flag instead of calling BlockProfile directly.

func Breakpoint 

func Breakpoint()

Breakpoint executes a breakpoint trap.

func CPUProfile 

func CPUProfile() []byte

CPUProfile returns the next chunk of binary CPU profiling stack trace data, blocking until data is available. If profiling is turned off and all the profile data accumulated while it was on has been returned, CPUProfile returns nil. The caller must save the returned data before calling CPUProfile again.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package or the testing package's -test.cpuprofile flag instead of calling CPUProfile directly.

func Caller 

func Caller(skip int) (pc uintptr, file string, line int, ok bool)

Caller reports file and line number information about function invocations on the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames to ascend, with 0 identifying the caller of Caller. (For historical reasons the meaning of skip differs between Caller and Callers.) The return values report the program counter, file name, and line number within the file of the corresponding call. The boolean ok is false if it was not possible to recover the information.

func Callers 

func Callers(skip int, pc []uintptr) int

Callers fills the slice pc with the program counters of function invocations on the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames to skip before recording in pc, with 0 identifying the frame for Callers itself and 1 identifying the caller of Callers. It returns the number of entries written to pc.

func GC 

func GC()

GC runs a garbage collection.

func GOMAXPROCS 

func GOMAXPROCS(n int) int

GOMAXPROCS sets the maximum number of CPUs that can be executing simultaneously and returns the previous setting. If n < 1, it does not change the current setting. The number of logical CPUs on the local machine can be queried with NumCPU. This call will go away when the scheduler improves.

func GOROOT 

func GOROOT() string

GOROOT returns the root of the Go tree. It uses the GOROOT environment variable, if set, or else the root used during the Go build.

func Goexit 

func Goexit()

Goexit terminates the goroutine that calls it. No other goroutine is affected. Goexit runs all deferred calls before terminating the goroutine.

Calling Goexit from the main goroutine terminates that goroutine without func main returning. Since func main has not returned, the program continues execution of other goroutines. If all other goroutines exit, the program crashes.

func GoroutineProfile 

func GoroutineProfile(p []StackRecord) (n int, ok bool)

GoroutineProfile returns n, the number of records in the active goroutine stack profile. If len(p) >= n, GoroutineProfile copies the profile into p and returns n, true. If len(p) < n, GoroutineProfile does not change p and returns n, false.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package instead of calling GoroutineProfile directly.

func Gosched 

func Gosched()

Gosched yields the processor, allowing other goroutines to run. It does not suspend the current goroutine, so execution resumes automatically.

func LockOSThread 

func LockOSThread()

LockOSThread wires the calling goroutine to its current operating system thread. Until the calling goroutine exits or calls UnlockOSThread, it will always execute in that thread, and no other goroutine can.

func MemProfile 

func MemProfile(p []MemProfileRecord, inuseZero bool) (n int, ok bool)

MemProfile returns n, the number of records in the current memory profile. If len(p) >= n, MemProfile copies the profile into p and returns n, true. If len(p) < n, MemProfile does not change p and returns n, false.

If inuseZero is true, the profile includes allocation records where r.AllocBytes > 0 but r.AllocBytes == r.FreeBytes. These are sites where memory was allocated, but it has all been released back to the runtime.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package or the testing package's -test.memprofile flag instead of calling MemProfile directly.

func NumCPU 

func NumCPU() int

NumCPU returns the number of logical CPUs on the local machine.

func NumCgoCall 

func NumCgoCall() int64

NumCgoCall returns the number of cgo calls made by the current process.

func NumGoroutine 

func NumGoroutine() int

NumGoroutine returns the number of goroutines that currently exist.

func ReadMemStats 

func ReadMemStats(m *MemStats)

ReadMemStats populates m with memory allocator statistics.

func SetBlockProfileRate added in go1.1 

func SetBlockProfileRate(rate int)

SetBlockProfileRate controls the fraction of goroutine blocking events that are reported in the blocking profile. The profiler aims to sample an average of one blocking event per rate nanoseconds spent blocked.

To include every blocking event in the profile, pass rate = 1. To turn off profiling entirely, pass rate <= 0.

func SetCPUProfileRate 

func SetCPUProfileRate(hz int)

SetCPUProfileRate sets the CPU profiling rate to hz samples per second. If hz <= 0, SetCPUProfileRate turns off profiling. If the profiler is on, the rate cannot be changed without first turning it off.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package or the testing package's -test.cpuprofile flag instead of calling SetCPUProfileRate directly.

func SetFinalizer 

func SetFinalizer(x, f interface{})

SetFinalizer sets the finalizer associated with x to f. When the garbage collector finds an unreachable block with an associated finalizer, it clears the association and runs f(x) in a separate goroutine. This makes x reachable again, but now without an associated finalizer. Assuming that SetFinalizer is not called again, the next time the garbage collector sees that x is unreachable, it will free x.

SetFinalizer(x, nil) clears any finalizer associated with x.

The argument x must be a pointer to an object allocated by calling new or by taking the address of a composite literal. The argument f must be a function that takes a single argument to which x's type can be assigned, and can have arbitrary ignored return values. If either of these is not true, SetFinalizer aborts the program.

Finalizers are run in dependency order: if A points at B, both have finalizers, and they are otherwise unreachable, only the finalizer for A runs; once A is freed, the finalizer for B can run. If a cyclic structure includes a block with a finalizer, that cycle is not guaranteed to be garbage collected and the finalizer is not guaranteed to run, because there is no ordering that respects the dependencies.

The finalizer for x is scheduled to run at some arbitrary time after x becomes unreachable. There is no guarantee that finalizers will run before a program exits, so typically they are useful only for releasing non-memory resources associated with an object during a long-running program. For example, an os.File object could use a finalizer to close the associated operating system file descriptor when a program discards an os.File without calling Close, but it would be a mistake to depend on a finalizer to flush an in-memory I/O buffer such as a bufio.Writer, because the buffer would not be flushed at program exit.

It is not guaranteed that a finalizer will run if the size of *x is zero bytes.

A single goroutine runs all finalizers for a program, sequentially. If a finalizer must run for a long time, it should do so by starting a new goroutine.

func Stack 

func Stack(buf []byte, all bool) int

Stack formats a stack trace of the calling goroutine into buf and returns the number of bytes written to buf. If all is true, Stack formats stack traces of all other goroutines into buf after the trace for the current goroutine.

func ThreadCreateProfile 

func ThreadCreateProfile(p []StackRecord) (n int, ok bool)

ThreadCreateProfile returns n, the number of records in the thread creation profile. If len(p) >= n, ThreadCreateProfile copies the profile into p and returns n, true. If len(p) < n, ThreadCreateProfile does not change p and returns n, false.

Most clients should use the runtime/pprof package instead of calling ThreadCreateProfile directly.

func UnlockOSThread 

func UnlockOSThread()

UnlockOSThread unwires the calling goroutine from its fixed operating system thread. If the calling goroutine has not called LockOSThread, UnlockOSThread is a no-op.

func Version 

func Version() string

Version returns the Go tree's version string. It is either the commit hash and date at the time of the build or, when possible, a release tag like "go1.3".

Types

type BlockProfileRecord added in go1.1 

type BlockProfileRecord struct {
	Count  int64
	Cycles int64
	StackRecord
}

BlockProfileRecord describes blocking events originated at a particular call sequence (stack trace).

type Error 

type Error interface {
	error

	// RuntimeError is a no-op function but
	// serves to distinguish types that are runtime
	// errors from ordinary errors: a type is a
	// runtime error if it has a RuntimeError method.
	RuntimeError()
}

The Error interface identifies a run time error.

type Func 

type Func struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

func FuncForPC 

func FuncForPC(pc uintptr) *Func

FuncForPC returns a *Func describing the function that contains the given program counter address, or else nil.

func (*Func) Entry 

func (f *Func) Entry() uintptr

Entry returns the entry address of the function.

func (*Func) FileLine 

func (f *Func) FileLine(pc uintptr) (file string, line int)

FileLine returns the file name and line number of the source code corresponding to the program counter pc. The result will not be accurate if pc is not a program counter within f.

func (*Func) Name 

func (f *Func) Name() string

Name returns the name of the function.

type MemProfileRecord 

type MemProfileRecord struct {
	AllocBytes, FreeBytes     int64       // number of bytes allocated, freed
	AllocObjects, FreeObjects int64       // number of objects allocated, freed
	Stack0                    [32]uintptr // stack trace for this record; ends at first 0 entry
}

A MemProfileRecord describes the live objects allocated by a particular call sequence (stack trace).

func (*MemProfileRecord) InUseBytes 

func (r *MemProfileRecord) InUseBytes() int64

InUseBytes returns the number of bytes in use (AllocBytes - FreeBytes).

func (*MemProfileRecord) InUseObjects 

func (r *MemProfileRecord) InUseObjects() int64

InUseObjects returns the number of objects in use (AllocObjects - FreeObjects).

func (*MemProfileRecord) Stack 

func (r *MemProfileRecord) Stack() []uintptr

Stack returns the stack trace associated with the record, a prefix of r.Stack0.

type MemStats 

type MemStats struct {
	// General statistics.
	Alloc      uint64 // bytes allocated and still in use
	TotalAlloc uint64 // bytes allocated (even if freed)
	Sys        uint64 // bytes obtained from system (sum of XxxSys below)
	Lookups    uint64 // number of pointer lookups
	Mallocs    uint64 // number of mallocs
	Frees      uint64 // number of frees

	// Main allocation heap statistics.
	HeapAlloc    uint64 // bytes allocated and still in use
	HeapSys      uint64 // bytes obtained from system
	HeapIdle     uint64 // bytes in idle spans
	HeapInuse    uint64 // bytes in non-idle span
	HeapReleased uint64 // bytes released to the OS
	HeapObjects  uint64 // total number of allocated objects

	// Low-level fixed-size structure allocator statistics.
	//	Inuse is bytes used now.
	//	Sys is bytes obtained from system.
	StackInuse  uint64 // bootstrap stacks
	StackSys    uint64
	MSpanInuse  uint64 // mspan structures
	MSpanSys    uint64
	MCacheInuse uint64 // mcache structures
	MCacheSys   uint64
	BuckHashSys uint64 // profiling bucket hash table
	GCSys       uint64 // GC metadata
	OtherSys    uint64 // other system allocations

	// Garbage collector statistics.
	NextGC       uint64 // next run in HeapAlloc time (bytes)
	LastGC       uint64 // last run in absolute time (ns)
	PauseTotalNs uint64
	PauseNs      [256]uint64 // circular buffer of recent GC pause times, most recent at [(NumGC+255)%256]
	NumGC        uint32
	EnableGC     bool
	DebugGC      bool

	// Per-size allocation statistics.
	// 61 is NumSizeClasses in the C code.
	BySize [61]struct {
		Size    uint32
		Mallocs uint64
		Frees   uint64
	}
}

A MemStats records statistics about the memory allocator.

type StackRecord 

type StackRecord struct {
	Stack0 [32]uintptr // stack trace for this record; ends at first 0 entry
}

A StackRecord describes a single execution stack.

func (*StackRecord) Stack 

func (r *StackRecord) Stack() []uintptr

Stack returns the stack trace associated with the record, a prefix of r.Stack0.

type TypeAssertionError 

type TypeAssertionError struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

A TypeAssertionError explains a failed type assertion.

func (*TypeAssertionError) Error 

func (e *TypeAssertionError) Error() string

func (*TypeAssertionError) RuntimeError 

func (*TypeAssertionError) RuntimeError()

Source Files

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Directories

Path Synopsis
Package cgo contains runtime support for code generated by the cgo tool.
 Package cgo contains runtime support for code generated by the cgo tool.
Package debug contains facilities for programs to debug themselves while they are running.
 Package debug contains facilities for programs to debug themselves while they are running.
Package pprof writes runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
 Package pprof writes runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
Package race implements data race detection logic.
 Package race implements data race detection logic.

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