Fix crossgen with large version bubble enabled

[platform/upstream/coreclr.git] / src / gc / gcinterface.h

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// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

#ifndef _GC_INTERFACE_H_
#define _GC_INTERFACE_H_

// The major version of the GC/EE interface. Breaking changes to this interface
// require bumps in the major version number.
#define GC_INTERFACE_MAJOR_VERSION 3

// The minor version of the GC/EE interface. Non-breaking changes are required
// to bump the minor version number. GCs and EEs with minor version number
// mismatches can still interopate correctly, with some care.
#define GC_INTERFACE_MINOR_VERSION 1

struct ScanContext;
struct gc_alloc_context;
class CrawlFrame;

// Callback passed to GcScanRoots.
typedef void promote_func(PTR_PTR_Object, ScanContext*, uint32_t);

// Callback passed to GcEnumAllocContexts.
typedef void enum_alloc_context_func(gc_alloc_context*, void*);

// Callback passed to CreateBackgroundThread.
typedef uint32_t (__stdcall *GCBackgroundThreadFunction)(void* param);

// Struct often used as a parameter to callbacks.
typedef struct
{
    promote_func*  f;
    ScanContext*   sc;
    CrawlFrame *   cf;
} GCCONTEXT;

// SUSPEND_REASON is the reason why the GC wishes to suspend the EE,
// used as an argument to IGCToCLR::SuspendEE.
typedef enum
{
    SUSPEND_FOR_GC = 1,
    SUSPEND_FOR_GC_PREP = 6
} SUSPEND_REASON;

typedef enum
{
    walk_for_gc = 1,
    walk_for_bgc = 2,
    walk_for_loh = 3
} walk_surv_type;

// Different operations that can be done by GCToEEInterface::StompWriteBarrier
enum class WriteBarrierOp
{
    StompResize,
    StompEphemeral,
    Initialize,
    SwitchToWriteWatch,
    SwitchToNonWriteWatch
};

// Arguments to GCToEEInterface::StompWriteBarrier
struct WriteBarrierParameters
{
    // The operation that StompWriteBarrier will perform.
    WriteBarrierOp operation;

    // Whether or not the runtime is currently suspended. If it is not,
    // the EE will need to suspend it before bashing the write barrier.
    // Used for all operations.
    bool is_runtime_suspended;

    // Whether or not the GC has moved the ephemeral generation to no longer
    // be at the top of the heap. When the ephemeral generation is at the top
    // of the heap, and the write barrier observes that a pointer is greater than
    // g_ephemeral_low, it does not need to check that the pointer is less than
    // g_ephemeral_high because there is nothing in the GC heap above the ephemeral
    // generation. When this is not the case, however, the GC must inform the EE
    // so that the EE can switch to a write barrier that checks that a pointer
    // is both greater than g_ephemeral_low and less than g_ephemeral_high.
    // Used for WriteBarrierOp::StompResize.
    bool requires_upper_bounds_check;

    // The new card table location. May or may not be the same as the previous
    // card table. Used for WriteBarrierOp::Initialize and WriteBarrierOp::StompResize.
    uint32_t* card_table;

    // The new card bundle table location. May or may not be the same as the previous
    // card bundle table. Used for WriteBarrierOp::Initialize and WriteBarrierOp::StompResize.
    uint32_t* card_bundle_table;

    // The heap's new low boundary. May or may not be the same as the previous
    // value. Used for WriteBarrierOp::Initialize and WriteBarrierOp::StompResize.
    uint8_t* lowest_address;

    // The heap's new high boundary. May or may not be the same as the previous
    // value. Used for WriteBarrierOp::Initialize and WriteBarrierOp::StompResize.
    uint8_t* highest_address;

    // The new start of the ephemeral generation. 
    // Used for WriteBarrierOp::StompEphemeral.
    uint8_t* ephemeral_low;

    // The new end of the ephemeral generation.
    // Used for WriteBarrierOp::StompEphemeral.
    uint8_t* ephemeral_high;

    // The new write watch table, if we are using our own write watch
    // implementation. Used for WriteBarrierOp::SwitchToWriteWatch only.
    uint8_t* write_watch_table;
};

// Opaque type for tracking object pointers
#ifndef DACCESS_COMPILE
struct OBJECTHANDLE__
{
    void* unused;
};
typedef struct OBJECTHANDLE__* OBJECTHANDLE;
#else
typedef uintptr_t OBJECTHANDLE;
#endif

 /*
  * Scanning callback.
  */
typedef void (CALLBACK *HANDLESCANPROC)(PTR_UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF pref, uintptr_t *pExtraInfo, uintptr_t param1, uintptr_t param2);

#include "gcinterface.ee.h"

// The allocation context must be known to the VM for use in the allocation
// fast path and known to the GC for performing the allocation. Every Thread
// has its own allocation context that it hands to the GC when allocating.
struct gc_alloc_context
{
    uint8_t*       alloc_ptr;
    uint8_t*       alloc_limit;
    int64_t        alloc_bytes; //Number of bytes allocated on SOH by this context
    int64_t        alloc_bytes_loh; //Number of bytes allocated on LOH by this context
    // These two fields are deliberately not exposed past the EE-GC interface.
    void*          gc_reserved_1;
    void*          gc_reserved_2;
    int            alloc_count;
public:

    void init()
    {
        LIMITED_METHOD_CONTRACT;

        alloc_ptr = 0;
        alloc_limit = 0;
        alloc_bytes = 0;
        alloc_bytes_loh = 0;
        gc_reserved_1 = 0;
        gc_reserved_2 = 0;
        alloc_count = 0;
    }
};

#include "gcinterface.dac.h"

// stub type to abstract a heap segment
struct gc_heap_segment_stub;
typedef gc_heap_segment_stub *segment_handle;

struct segment_info
{
    void * pvMem; // base of the allocation, not the first object (must add ibFirstObject)
    size_t ibFirstObject;   // offset to the base of the first object in the segment
    size_t ibAllocated; // limit of allocated memory in the segment (>= firstobject)
    size_t ibCommit; // limit of committed memory in the segment (>= allocated)
    size_t ibReserved; // limit of reserved memory in the segment (>= commit)
};

#ifdef PROFILING_SUPPORTED
#define GC_PROFILING       //Turn on profiling
#endif // PROFILING_SUPPORTED

#define LARGE_OBJECT_SIZE ((size_t)(85000))

// The minimum size of an object is three pointers wide: one for the syncblock,
// one for the object header, and one for the first field in the object.
#define min_obj_size ((sizeof(uint8_t*) + sizeof(uintptr_t) + sizeof(size_t)))

// The bit shift used to convert a memory address into an index into the
// Software Write Watch table.
#define SOFTWARE_WRITE_WATCH_AddressToTableByteIndexShift 0xc

class Object;
class IGCHeap;
class IGCHandleManager;

#ifdef WRITE_BARRIER_CHECK
//always defined, but should be 0 in Server GC
extern uint8_t* g_GCShadow;
extern uint8_t* g_GCShadowEnd;
// saves the g_lowest_address in between GCs to verify the consistency of the shadow segment
extern uint8_t* g_shadow_lowest_address;
#endif

/*
 * GCEventProvider represents one of the two providers that the GC can
 * fire events from: the default and private providers.
 */
enum GCEventProvider
{
    GCEventProvider_Default = 0,
    GCEventProvider_Private = 1
};

// Event levels corresponding to events that can be fired by the GC.
enum GCEventLevel
{
    GCEventLevel_None = 0,
    GCEventLevel_Fatal = 1,
    GCEventLevel_Error = 2,
    GCEventLevel_Warning = 3,
    GCEventLevel_Information = 4,
    GCEventLevel_Verbose = 5,
    GCEventLevel_Max = 6,
    GCEventLevel_LogAlways = 255
};

// Event keywords corresponding to events that can be fired by the GC. These
// numbers come from the ETW manifest itself - please make changes to this enum
// if you add, remove, or change keyword sets that are used by the GC!
enum GCEventKeyword
{
    GCEventKeyword_None                          =       0x0,
    GCEventKeyword_GC                            =       0x1,
    // Duplicate on purpose, GCPrivate is the same keyword as GC, 
    // with a different provider
    GCEventKeyword_GCPrivate                     =       0x1,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHandle                      =       0x2,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHandlePrivate               =    0x4000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHeapDump                    =  0x100000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCSampledObjectAllocationHigh =  0x200000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHeapSurvivalAndMovement     =  0x400000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHeapCollect                 =  0x800000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCHeapAndTypeNames            = 0x1000000,
    GCEventKeyword_GCSampledObjectAllocationLow  = 0x2000000,
    GCEventKeyword_All = GCEventKeyword_GC
      | GCEventKeyword_GCPrivate
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHandle
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHandlePrivate
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHeapDump
      | GCEventKeyword_GCSampledObjectAllocationHigh
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHeapSurvivalAndMovement
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHeapCollect
      | GCEventKeyword_GCHeapAndTypeNames
      | GCEventKeyword_GCSampledObjectAllocationLow
};

// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
// make sure you change the def in bcl\system\gc.cs 
// if you change this!
enum collection_mode
{
    collection_non_blocking = 0x00000001,
    collection_blocking = 0x00000002,
    collection_optimized = 0x00000004,
    collection_compacting = 0x00000008
#ifdef STRESS_HEAP
    , collection_gcstress = 0x80000000
#endif // STRESS_HEAP
};

// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
// make sure you change the def in bcl\system\gc.cs 
// if you change this!
enum wait_full_gc_status
{
    wait_full_gc_success = 0,
    wait_full_gc_failed = 1,
    wait_full_gc_cancelled = 2,
    wait_full_gc_timeout = 3,
    wait_full_gc_na = 4
};

// !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
// make sure you change the def in bcl\system\gc.cs 
// if you change this!
enum start_no_gc_region_status
{
    start_no_gc_success = 0,
    start_no_gc_no_memory = 1,
    start_no_gc_too_large = 2,
    start_no_gc_in_progress = 3
};

enum end_no_gc_region_status
{
    end_no_gc_success = 0,
    end_no_gc_not_in_progress = 1,
    end_no_gc_induced = 2,
    end_no_gc_alloc_exceeded = 3
};

typedef enum 
{
    /*
     * WEAK HANDLES
     *
     * Weak handles are handles that track an object as long as it is alive,
     * but do not keep the object alive if there are no strong references to it.
     *
     */

    /*
     * SHORT-LIVED WEAK HANDLES
     *
     * Short-lived weak handles are weak handles that track an object until the
     * first time it is detected to be unreachable.  At this point, the handle is
     * severed, even if the object will be visible from a pending finalization
     * graph.  This further implies that short weak handles do not track
     * across object resurrections.
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_WEAK_SHORT   = 0,

    /*
     * LONG-LIVED WEAK HANDLES
     *
     * Long-lived weak handles are weak handles that track an object until the
     * object is actually reclaimed.  Unlike short weak handles, long weak handles
     * continue to track their referents through finalization and across any
     * resurrections that may occur.
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_WEAK_LONG    = 1,
    HNDTYPE_WEAK_DEFAULT = 1,

    /*
     * STRONG HANDLES
     *
     * Strong handles are handles which function like a normal object reference.
     * The existence of a strong handle for an object will cause the object to
     * be promoted (remain alive) through a garbage collection cycle.
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_STRONG       = 2,
    HNDTYPE_DEFAULT      = 2,

    /*
     * PINNED HANDLES
     *
     * Pinned handles are strong handles which have the added property that they
     * prevent an object from moving during a garbage collection cycle.  This is
     * useful when passing a pointer to object innards out of the runtime while GC
     * may be enabled.
     *
     * NOTE:  PINNING AN OBJECT IS EXPENSIVE AS IT PREVENTS THE GC FROM ACHIEVING
     *        OPTIMAL PACKING OF OBJECTS DURING EPHEMERAL COLLECTIONS.  THIS TYPE
     *        OF HANDLE SHOULD BE USED SPARINGLY!
     */
    HNDTYPE_PINNED       = 3,

    /*
     * VARIABLE HANDLES
     *
     * Variable handles are handles whose type can be changed dynamically.  They
     * are larger than other types of handles, and are scanned a little more often,
     * but are useful when the handle owner needs an efficient way to change the
     * strength of a handle on the fly.
     * 
     */
    HNDTYPE_VARIABLE     = 4,

    /*
     * REFCOUNTED HANDLES
     *
     * Refcounted handles are handles that behave as strong handles while the
     * refcount on them is greater than 0 and behave as weak handles otherwise.
     *
     * N.B. These are currently NOT general purpose.
     *      The implementation is tied to COM Interop.
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_REFCOUNTED   = 5,

    /*
     * DEPENDENT HANDLES
     *
     * Dependent handles are two handles that need to have the same lifetime.  One handle refers to a secondary object 
     * that needs to have the same lifetime as the primary object. The secondary object should not cause the primary 
     * object to be referenced, but as long as the primary object is alive, so must be the secondary
     *
     * They are currently used for EnC for adding new field members to existing instantiations under EnC modes where
     * the primary object is the original instantiation and the secondary represents the added field.
     *
     * They are also used to implement the ConditionalWeakTable class in mscorlib.dll. If you want to use
     * these from managed code, they are exposed to BCL through the managed DependentHandle class.
     *
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_DEPENDENT    = 6,

    /*
     * PINNED HANDLES for asynchronous operation
     *
     * Pinned handles are strong handles which have the added property that they
     * prevent an object from moving during a garbage collection cycle.  This is
     * useful when passing a pointer to object innards out of the runtime while GC
     * may be enabled.
     *
     * NOTE:  PINNING AN OBJECT IS EXPENSIVE AS IT PREVENTS THE GC FROM ACHIEVING
     *        OPTIMAL PACKING OF OBJECTS DURING EPHEMERAL COLLECTIONS.  THIS TYPE
     *        OF HANDLE SHOULD BE USED SPARINGLY!
     */
    HNDTYPE_ASYNCPINNED  = 7,

    /*
     * SIZEDREF HANDLES
     *
     * SizedRef handles are strong handles. Each handle has a piece of user data associated
     * with it that stores the size of the object this handle refers to. These handles
     * are scanned as strong roots during each GC but only during full GCs would the size
     * be calculated.
     *
     */
    HNDTYPE_SIZEDREF     = 8,

    /*
     * WINRT WEAK HANDLES
     *
     * WinRT weak reference handles hold two different types of weak handles to any
     * RCW with an underlying COM object that implements IWeakReferenceSource.  The
     * object reference itself is a short weak handle to the RCW.  In addition an
     * IWeakReference* to the underlying COM object is stored, allowing the handle
     * to create a new RCW if the existing RCW is collected.  This ensures that any
     * code holding onto a WinRT weak reference can always access an RCW to the
     * underlying COM object as long as it has not been released by all of its strong
     * references.
     */
    HNDTYPE_WEAK_WINRT   = 9
} HandleType;

typedef enum
{
    GC_HEAP_INVALID = 0,
    GC_HEAP_WKS     = 1,
    GC_HEAP_SVR     = 2
} GCHeapType;

typedef bool (* walk_fn)(Object*, void*);
typedef void (* gen_walk_fn)(void* context, int generation, uint8_t* range_start, uint8_t* range_end, uint8_t* range_reserved);
typedef void (* record_surv_fn)(uint8_t* begin, uint8_t* end, ptrdiff_t reloc, void* context, bool compacting_p, bool bgc_p);
typedef void (* fq_walk_fn)(bool, void*);
typedef void (* fq_scan_fn)(Object** ppObject, ScanContext *pSC, uint32_t dwFlags);
typedef void (* handle_scan_fn)(Object** pRef, Object* pSec, uint32_t flags, ScanContext* context, bool isDependent);
typedef bool (* async_pin_enum_fn)(Object* object, void* context);



class IGCHandleStore {
public:

    virtual void Uproot() = 0;

    virtual bool ContainsHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateHandleOfType(Object* object, HandleType type) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateHandleOfType(Object* object, HandleType type, int heapToAffinitizeTo) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateHandleWithExtraInfo(Object* object, HandleType type, void* pExtraInfo) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateDependentHandle(Object* primary, Object* secondary) = 0;

    // Relocates async pinned handles from a condemned handle store to the default domain's handle store.
    //
    // The two callbacks are called when:
    //   1. clearIfComplete is called whenever the handle table observes an async pin that is still live.
    //      The callback gives a chance for the EE to unpin the referents if the overlapped operation is complete.
    //   2. setHandle is called whenever the GC has relocated the async pin to a new handle table. The passed-in
    //      handle is the newly-allocated handle in the default domain that should be assigned to the overlapped object.
    virtual void RelocateAsyncPinnedHandles(IGCHandleStore* pTarget, void (*clearIfComplete)(Object*), void (*setHandle)(Object*, OBJECTHANDLE)) = 0;

    virtual bool EnumerateAsyncPinnedHandles(async_pin_enum_fn callback, void* context) = 0;

    virtual ~IGCHandleStore() {};
};

class IGCHandleManager {
public:

    virtual bool Initialize() = 0;

    virtual void Shutdown() = 0;

    virtual void* GetHandleContext(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual IGCHandleStore* GetGlobalHandleStore() = 0;

    virtual IGCHandleStore* CreateHandleStore(void* context) = 0;

    virtual void DestroyHandleStore(IGCHandleStore* store) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateGlobalHandleOfType(Object* object, HandleType type) = 0;

    virtual OBJECTHANDLE CreateDuplicateHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual void DestroyHandleOfType(OBJECTHANDLE handle, HandleType type) = 0;

    virtual void DestroyHandleOfUnknownType(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual void SetExtraInfoForHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle, HandleType type, void* pExtraInfo) = 0;

    virtual void* GetExtraInfoFromHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual void StoreObjectInHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle, Object* object) = 0;

    virtual bool StoreObjectInHandleIfNull(OBJECTHANDLE handle, Object* object) = 0;

    virtual void SetDependentHandleSecondary(OBJECTHANDLE handle, Object* object) = 0;

    virtual Object* GetDependentHandleSecondary(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual Object* InterlockedCompareExchangeObjectInHandle(OBJECTHANDLE handle, Object* object, Object* comparandObject) = 0;

    virtual HandleType HandleFetchType(OBJECTHANDLE handle) = 0;

    virtual void TraceRefCountedHandles(HANDLESCANPROC callback, uintptr_t param1, uintptr_t param2) = 0;
};

// IGCHeap is the interface that the VM will use when interacting with the GC.
class IGCHeap {
public:
    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Hosting APIs. These are used by GC hosting. The code that
    calls these methods may possibly be moved behind the interface -
    today, the VM handles the setting of segment size and max gen 0 size.
    (See src/vm/corehost.cpp)
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Returns whether or not the given size is a valid segment size.
    virtual bool IsValidSegmentSize(size_t size) = 0;

    // Returns whether or not the given size is a valid gen 0 max size.
    virtual bool IsValidGen0MaxSize(size_t size) = 0;

    // Gets a valid segment size.
    virtual size_t GetValidSegmentSize(bool large_seg = false) = 0;

    // Sets the limit for reserved virtual memory.
    virtual void SetReservedVMLimit(size_t vmlimit) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Concurrent GC routines. These are used in various places in the VM
    to synchronize with the GC, when the VM wants to update something that
    the GC is potentially using, if it's doing a background GC.

    Concrete examples of this are moving async pinned handles across appdomains
    and profiling/ETW scenarios.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Blocks until any running concurrent GCs complete.
    virtual void WaitUntilConcurrentGCComplete() = 0;

    // Returns true if a concurrent GC is in progress, false otherwise.
    virtual bool IsConcurrentGCInProgress() = 0;

    // Temporarily enables concurrent GC, used during profiling.
    virtual void TemporaryEnableConcurrentGC() = 0;

    // Temporarily disables concurrent GC, used during profiling.
    virtual void TemporaryDisableConcurrentGC() = 0;

    // Returns whether or not Concurrent GC is enabled.
    virtual bool IsConcurrentGCEnabled() = 0;

    // Wait for a concurrent GC to complete if one is in progress, with the given timeout.
    virtual HRESULT WaitUntilConcurrentGCCompleteAsync(int millisecondsTimeout) = 0;    // Use in native threads. TRUE if succeed. FALSE if failed or timeout


    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Finalization routines. These are used by the finalizer thread to communicate
    with the GC.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Finalizes an app domain by finalizing objects within that app domain.
    virtual bool FinalizeAppDomain(void* pDomain, bool fRunFinalizers) = 0;

    // Finalizes all registered objects for shutdown, even if they are still reachable.
    virtual void SetFinalizeQueueForShutdown(bool fHasLock) = 0;

    // Gets the number of finalizable objects.
    virtual size_t GetNumberOfFinalizable() = 0;

    // Traditionally used by the finalizer thread on shutdown to determine
    // whether or not to time out. Returns true if the GC lock has not been taken.
    virtual bool ShouldRestartFinalizerWatchDog() = 0;

    // Gets the next finalizable object.
    virtual Object* GetNextFinalizable() = 0;

    // Sets whether or not the GC should report all finalizable objects as
    // ready to be finalized, instead of only collectable objects.
    virtual void SetFinalizeRunOnShutdown(bool value) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    BCL routines. These are routines that are directly exposed by mscorlib
    as a part of the `System.GC` class. These routines behave in the same
    manner as the functions on `System.GC`.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Gets memory related information -
    // highMemLoadThreshold - physical memory load (in percentage) when GC will start to 
    // react aggressively to reclaim memory.
    // totalPhysicalMem - the total amount of phyiscal memory available on the machine and the memory
    // limit set on the container if running in a container.
    // lastRecordedMemLoad - physical memory load in percentage recorded in the last GC
    // lastRecordedHeapSize - total managed heap size recorded in the last GC
    // lastRecordedFragmentation - total fragmentation in the managed heap recorded in the last GC
    virtual void GetMemoryInfo(uint32_t* highMemLoadThreshold, 
                               uint64_t* totalPhysicalMem, 
                               uint32_t* lastRecordedMemLoad,
                               size_t* lastRecordedHeapSize,
                               size_t* lastRecordedFragmentation) = 0;

    // Gets the current GC latency mode.
    virtual int GetGcLatencyMode() = 0;

    // Sets the current GC latency mode. newLatencyMode has already been
    // verified by mscorlib to be valid.
    virtual int SetGcLatencyMode(int newLatencyMode) = 0;

    // Gets the current LOH compaction mode.
    virtual int GetLOHCompactionMode() = 0;

    // Sets the current LOH compaction mode. newLOHCompactionMode has
    // already been verified by mscorlib to be valid.
    virtual void SetLOHCompactionMode(int newLOHCompactionMode) = 0;

    // Registers for a full GC notification, raising a notification if the gen 2 or
    // LOH object heap thresholds are exceeded.
    virtual bool RegisterForFullGCNotification(uint32_t gen2Percentage, uint32_t lohPercentage) = 0;

    // Cancels a full GC notification that was requested by `RegisterForFullGCNotification`.
    virtual bool CancelFullGCNotification() = 0;

    // Returns the status of a registered notification for determining whether a blocking
    // Gen 2 collection is about to be initiated, with the given timeout.
    virtual int WaitForFullGCApproach(int millisecondsTimeout) = 0;

    // Returns the status of a registered notification for determining whether a blocking
    // Gen 2 collection has completed, with the given timeout.
    virtual int WaitForFullGCComplete(int millisecondsTimeout) = 0;

    // Returns the generation in which obj is found. Also used by the VM
    // in some places, in particular syncblk code.
    virtual unsigned WhichGeneration(Object* obj) = 0;

    // Returns the number of GCs that have transpired in the given generation
    // since the beginning of the life of the process. Also used by the VM
    // for debug code and app domains.
    virtual int CollectionCount(int generation, int get_bgc_fgc_coutn = 0) = 0;

    // Begins a no-GC region, returning a code indicating whether entering the no-GC
    // region was successful.
    virtual int StartNoGCRegion(uint64_t totalSize, bool lohSizeKnown, uint64_t lohSize, bool disallowFullBlockingGC) = 0;

    // Exits a no-GC region.
    virtual int EndNoGCRegion() = 0;

    // Gets the total number of bytes in use.
    virtual size_t GetTotalBytesInUse() = 0;

    // Forces a garbage collection of the given generation. Also used extensively
    // throughout the VM.
    virtual HRESULT GarbageCollect(int generation = -1, bool low_memory_p = false, int mode = collection_blocking) = 0;

    // Gets the largest GC generation. Also used extensively throughout the VM.
    virtual unsigned GetMaxGeneration() = 0;

    // Indicates that an object's finalizer should not be run upon the object's collection.
    virtual void SetFinalizationRun(Object* obj) = 0;

    // Indicates that an object's finalizer should be run upon the object's collection.
    virtual bool RegisterForFinalization(int gen, Object* obj) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Miscellaneous routines used by the VM.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Initializes the GC heap, returning whether or not the initialization
    // was successful.
    virtual HRESULT Initialize() = 0;

    // Returns whether nor this GC was promoted by the last GC.
    virtual bool IsPromoted(Object* object) = 0;

    // Returns true if this pointer points into a GC heap, false otherwise.
    virtual bool IsHeapPointer(void* object, bool small_heap_only = false) = 0;

    // Return the generation that has been condemned by the current GC.
    virtual unsigned GetCondemnedGeneration() = 0;

    // Returns whether or not a GC is in progress.
    virtual bool IsGCInProgressHelper(bool bConsiderGCStart = false) = 0;

    // Returns the number of GCs that have occured. Mainly used for
    // sanity checks asserting that a GC has not occured.
    virtual unsigned GetGcCount() = 0;

    // Gets whether or not the home heap of this alloc context matches the heap
    // associated with this thread.
    virtual bool IsThreadUsingAllocationContextHeap(gc_alloc_context* acontext, int thread_number) = 0;
    
    // Returns whether or not this object resides in an ephemeral generation.
    virtual bool IsEphemeral(Object* object) = 0;

    // Blocks until a GC is complete, returning a code indicating the wait was successful.
    virtual uint32_t WaitUntilGCComplete(bool bConsiderGCStart = false) = 0;

    // "Fixes" an allocation context by binding its allocation pointer to a
    // location on the heap.
    virtual void FixAllocContext(gc_alloc_context* acontext, void* arg, void* heap) = 0;

    // Gets the total survived size plus the total allocated bytes on the heap.
    virtual size_t GetCurrentObjSize() = 0;

    // Sets whether or not a GC is in progress.
    virtual void SetGCInProgress(bool fInProgress) = 0;

    // Gets whether or not the GC runtime structures are in a valid state for heap traversal.
    virtual bool RuntimeStructuresValid() = 0;

    // Tells the GC when the VM is suspending threads.
    virtual void SetSuspensionPending(bool fSuspensionPending) = 0;

    // Tells the GC how many YieldProcessor calls are equal to one scaled yield processor call.
    virtual void SetYieldProcessorScalingFactor(float yieldProcessorScalingFactor) = 0;

    /*
    ============================================================================
    Add/RemoveMemoryPressure support routines. These are on the interface
    for now, but we should move Add/RemoveMemoryPressure from the VM to the GC.
    When that occurs, these three routines can be removed from the interface.
    ============================================================================
    */

    // Get the timestamp corresponding to the last GC that occured for the
    // given generation.
    virtual size_t GetLastGCStartTime(int generation) = 0;

    // Gets the duration of the last GC that occured for the given generation.
    virtual size_t GetLastGCDuration(int generation) = 0;

    // Gets a timestamp for the current moment in time.
    virtual size_t GetNow() = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Allocation routines. These all call into the GC's allocator and may trigger a garbage
    collection. All allocation routines return NULL when the allocation request
    couldn't be serviced due to being out of memory.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Allocates an object on the given allocation context with the given size and flags.
    // It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure that the passed-in alloc context is
    // owned by the thread that is calling this function. If using per-thread alloc contexts,
    // no lock is needed; callers not using per-thread alloc contexts will need to acquire
    // a lock to ensure that the calling thread has unique ownership over this alloc context;
    virtual Object* Alloc(gc_alloc_context* acontext, size_t size, uint32_t flags) = 0;

    // Allocates an object on the large object heap with the given size and flags.
    virtual Object* AllocLHeap(size_t size, uint32_t flags) = 0;

    // Allocates an object on the given allocation context, aligned to 64 bits,
    // with the given size and flags.
    // It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure that the passed-in alloc context is
    // owned by the thread that is calling this function. If using per-thread alloc contexts,
    // no lock is needed; callers not using per-thread alloc contexts will need to acquire
    // a lock to ensure that the calling thread has unique ownership over this alloc context.
    virtual Object* AllocAlign8(gc_alloc_context* acontext, size_t size, uint32_t flags) = 0;

    // This is for the allocator to indicate it's done allocating a large object during a 
    // background GC as the BGC threads also need to walk LOH.
    virtual void PublishObject(uint8_t* obj) = 0;

    // Signals the WaitForGCEvent event, indicating that a GC has completed.
    virtual void SetWaitForGCEvent() = 0;

    // Resets the state of the WaitForGCEvent back to an unsignalled state.
    virtual void ResetWaitForGCEvent() = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Heap verification routines. These are used during heap verification only.
    ===========================================================================
    */
    // Returns whether or not this object is in the fixed heap.
    virtual bool IsObjectInFixedHeap(Object* pObj) = 0;

    // Walks an object and validates its members.
    virtual void ValidateObjectMember(Object* obj) = 0;

    // Retrieves the next object after the given object. When the EE
    // is not suspended, the result is not accurate - if the input argument
    // is in Gen0, the function could return zeroed out memory as the next object.
    virtual Object* NextObj(Object* object) = 0;

    // Given an interior pointer, return a pointer to the object
    // containing that pointer. This is safe to call only when the EE is suspended.
    // When fCollectedGenOnly is true, it only returns the object if it's found in 
    // the generation(s) that are being collected.
    virtual Object* GetContainingObject(void* pInteriorPtr, bool fCollectedGenOnly) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Profiling routines. Used for event tracing and profiling to broadcast
    information regarding the heap.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Walks an object, invoking a callback on each member.
    virtual void DiagWalkObject(Object* obj, walk_fn fn, void* context) = 0;

    // Walk the heap object by object.
    virtual void DiagWalkHeap(walk_fn fn, void* context, int gen_number, bool walk_large_object_heap_p) = 0;
    
    // Walks the survivors and get the relocation information if objects have moved.
    virtual void DiagWalkSurvivorsWithType(void* gc_context, record_surv_fn fn, void* diag_context, walk_surv_type type) = 0;

    // Walks the finalization queue.
    virtual void DiagWalkFinalizeQueue(void* gc_context, fq_walk_fn fn) = 0;

    // Scan roots on finalizer queue. This is a generic function.
    virtual void DiagScanFinalizeQueue(fq_scan_fn fn, ScanContext* context) = 0;

    // Scan handles for profiling or ETW.
    virtual void DiagScanHandles(handle_scan_fn fn, int gen_number, ScanContext* context) = 0;

    // Scan dependent handles for profiling or ETW.
    virtual void DiagScanDependentHandles(handle_scan_fn fn, int gen_number, ScanContext* context) = 0;

    // Describes all generations to the profiler, invoking a callback on each generation.
    virtual void DiagDescrGenerations(gen_walk_fn fn, void* context) = 0;

    // Traces all GC segments and fires ETW events with information on them.
    virtual void DiagTraceGCSegments() = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    GC Stress routines. Used only when running under GC Stress.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Returns TRUE if GC actually happens, otherwise FALSE. The passed alloc context
    // must not be null.
    virtual bool StressHeap(gc_alloc_context* acontext) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Routines to register read only segments for frozen objects. 
    Only valid if FEATURE_BASICFREEZE is defined.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Registers a frozen segment with the GC.
    virtual segment_handle RegisterFrozenSegment(segment_info *pseginfo) = 0;

    // Unregisters a frozen segment.
    virtual void UnregisterFrozenSegment(segment_handle seg) = 0;

    // Indicates whether an object is in a frozen segment.
    virtual bool IsInFrozenSegment(Object *object) = 0;

    /*
    ===========================================================================
    Routines for informing the GC about which events are enabled.
    ===========================================================================
    */

    // Enables or disables the given keyword or level on the default event provider.
    virtual void ControlEvents(GCEventKeyword keyword, GCEventLevel level) = 0;

    // Enables or disables the given keyword or level on the private event provider.
    virtual void ControlPrivateEvents(GCEventKeyword keyword, GCEventLevel level) = 0;

    IGCHeap() {}
    virtual ~IGCHeap() {}
};

#ifdef WRITE_BARRIER_CHECK
void updateGCShadow(Object** ptr, Object* val);
#endif

//constants for the flags parameter to the gc call back

#define GC_CALL_INTERIOR            0x1
#define GC_CALL_PINNED              0x2
#define GC_CALL_CHECK_APP_DOMAIN    0x4

//flags for IGCHeapAlloc(...)
#define GC_ALLOC_FINALIZE 0x1
#define GC_ALLOC_CONTAINS_REF 0x2
#define GC_ALLOC_ALIGN8_BIAS 0x4
#define GC_ALLOC_ALIGN8 0x8

#if defined(USE_CHECKED_OBJECTREFS) && !defined(_NOVM)
#define OBJECTREF_TO_UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF(objref)    (*((_UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF*)&(objref)))
#define UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF_TO_OBJECTREF(obj)       (OBJECTREF(obj))
#else
#define OBJECTREF_TO_UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF(objref)    (objref)
#define UNCHECKED_OBJECTREF_TO_OBJECTREF(obj)       (obj)
#endif

struct ScanContext
{
    Thread* thread_under_crawl;
    int thread_number;
    uintptr_t stack_limit; // Lowest point on the thread stack that the scanning logic is permitted to read
    bool promotion; //TRUE: Promotion, FALSE: Relocation.
    bool concurrent; //TRUE: concurrent scanning 
#if defined (FEATURE_APPDOMAIN_RESOURCE_MONITORING) || defined (DACCESS_COMPILE)
    AppDomain *pCurrentDomain;
#else
    void* _unused1;
#endif //FEATURE_APPDOMAIN_RESOURCE_MONITORING || DACCESS_COMPILE
    void* pMD;
#if defined(GC_PROFILING) || defined(FEATURE_EVENT_TRACE)
    EtwGCRootKind dwEtwRootKind;
#else
    EtwGCRootKind _unused3;
#endif // GC_PROFILING || FEATURE_EVENT_TRACE
    
    ScanContext()
    {
        LIMITED_METHOD_CONTRACT;

        thread_under_crawl = 0;
        thread_number = -1;
        stack_limit = 0;
        promotion = false;
        concurrent = false;
        pMD = NULL;
#if defined(GC_PROFILING) || defined(FEATURE_EVENT_TRACE)
        dwEtwRootKind = kEtwGCRootKindOther;
#endif
    }
};

// These types are used as part of the loader protocol between the EE
// and the GC.
struct VersionInfo {
    uint32_t MajorVersion;
    uint32_t MinorVersion;
    uint32_t BuildVersion;
    const char* Name;
};

typedef void (*GC_VersionInfoFunction)(
    /* Out */ VersionInfo*
);

typedef HRESULT (*GC_InitializeFunction)(
    /* In  */ IGCToCLR*,
    /* Out */ IGCHeap**,
    /* Out */ IGCHandleManager**,
    /* Out */ GcDacVars*
);

#endif // _GC_INTERFACE_H_