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I wrote the Lwan web server, which similarly to Go, has its own scheduler and makes use of stackful coroutines. I have spent quite a bit of time Valgrinding it after adding the necessary instrumentation to not make Valgrind freak out due to the stack pointer changing like crazy. Despite a lot of Valgrind's limitations due to the way it works, it has been instrumental to finding some subtle concurrency issues in the scheduler and vicinity.

From a quick glance, it seems that Go is now registering the stacks and emitting stack change commands on every goroutine context switch. This is most likely enough to make Valgrind happy with Go's scheduler.

parent acidx 1 year ago

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