// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package leaktest provides tools to detect leaked goroutines in tests. // To use it, call "defer leaktest.AfterTest(t)()" at the beginning of each // test that may use goroutines. package main import ( "runtime" "sort" "strings" "time" ) const ( // deadline (in seconds) up to which the go routine leak detection has to be retried. leakDetectDeadline = 5 // pause time (in milliseconds) between each snapshot at the end of the go routine leak detection. leakDetectPauseTimeMs = 50 ) // LeakDetect - type with methods for go routine leak detection. type LeakDetect struct { relevantRoutines map[string]bool } // NewLeakDetect - Initialize a LeakDetector with the snapshot of relevant Go routines. func NewLeakDetect() LeakDetect { snapshot := LeakDetect{ relevantRoutines: make(map[string]bool), } for _, g := range pickRelevantGoroutines() { snapshot.relevantRoutines[g] = true } return snapshot } // CompareCurrentSnapshot - Compares the initial relevant stack trace with the current one (during the time of invocation). func (initialSnapShot LeakDetect) CompareCurrentSnapshot() []string { var stackDiff []string for _, g := range pickRelevantGoroutines() { // Identify the Go routines those were not present in the initial snapshot. // In other words a stack diff. if !initialSnapShot.relevantRoutines[g] { stackDiff = append(stackDiff, g) } } return stackDiff } // DetectLeak - Creates a snapshot of runtiem stack and compares it with the initial stack snapshot. func (initialSnapShot LeakDetect) DetectLeak(t TestErrHandler) { if t.Failed() { return } // Loop, waiting for goroutines to shut down. // Wait up to 5 seconds, but finish as quickly as possible. deadline := time.Now().Add(leakDetectDeadline * time.Second) for { // get sack snapshot of relevant go routines. leaked := initialSnapShot.CompareCurrentSnapshot() // current stack snapshot matches the initial one, no leaks, return. if len(leaked) == 0 { return } // wait a test again will deadline. if time.Now().Before(deadline) { time.Sleep(leakDetectPauseTimeMs * time.Millisecond) continue } // after the deadline time report all the difference in the latest snapshot compared with the initial one. for _, g := range leaked { t.Errorf("Leaked goroutine: %v", g) } return } } // DetectTestLeak - snapshots the currently-running goroutines and returns a // function to be run at the end of tests to see whether any // goroutines leaked. // Usage: `defer DetectTestLeak(t)()` in beginning line of benchmarks or unit tests. func DetectTestLeak(t TestErrHandler) func() { initialStackSnapShot := NewLeakDetect() return func() { initialStackSnapShot.DetectLeak(t) } } // list of functions to be ignored from the stack trace. // Leak detection is done when tests are run, should ignore the tests related functions, // and other runtime functions while identifying leaks. var ignoredStackFns = []string{ "", // Below are the stacks ignored by the upstream leaktest code. "testing.Main(", "testing.tRunner(", "testing.tRunner(", "runtime.goexit", "created by runtime.gc", // ignore the snapshot function. // since the snapshot is taken here the entry will have the current function too. "pickRelevantGoroutines", "runtime.MHeap_Scavenger", "signal.signal_recv", "sigterm.handler", "runtime_mcall", "goroutine in C code", } // Identify whether the stack trace entry is part of ignoredStackFn . func isIgnoredStackFn(stack string) (ok bool) { ok = true for _, stackFn := range ignoredStackFns { if !strings.Contains(stack, stackFn) { ok = false continue } break } return ok } // pickRelevantGoroutines returns all goroutines we care about for the purpose // of leak checking. It excludes testing or runtime ones. func pickRelevantGoroutines() (gs []string) { // make a large buffer to hold the runtime stack info. buf := make([]byte, 2<<20) buf = buf[:runtime.Stack(buf, true)] // runtime stack of go routines will be listed with 2 blank spaces between each of them, so split on "\n\n" . for _, g := range strings.Split(string(buf), "\n\n") { // Again split on a new line, the first line of the second half contaisn the info about the go routine. sl := strings.SplitN(g, "\n", 2) if len(sl) != 2 { continue } stack := strings.TrimSpace(sl[1]) // ignore the testing go routine. // since the tests will be invoking the leaktest it would contain the test go routine. if strings.HasPrefix(stack, "testing.RunTests") { continue } // Ignore the following go routines. // testing and run time go routines should be ignored, only the application generated go routines should be taken into account. if isIgnoredStackFn(stack) { continue } gs = append(gs, g) } sort.Strings(gs) return }