[Python-checkins] bpo-40533: Disable GC in subinterpreters (GH-19961)

[Victor Stinner]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d8135e913ab7c694db247c86d0a84c450c32d86e
commit: d8135e913ab7c694db247c86d0a84c450c32d86e
branch: master
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at python.org>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-05-06T18:25:06+02:00
summary:

bpo-40533: Disable GC in subinterpreters (GH-19961)

When Python is built with experimental isolated interpreters, a
garbage collection now does nothing in an isolated interpreter.

Temporary workaround until subinterpreters stop sharing Python
objects.

files:
M Modules/gcmodule.c

diff --git a/Modules/gcmodule.c b/Modules/gcmodule.c
index 56dcb101e0005..a44752b1cc4da 100644
--- a/Modules/gcmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/gcmodule.c
@@ -1181,6 +1181,14 @@ collect(PyThreadState *tstate, int generation,
     _PyTime_t t1 = 0;   /* initialize to prevent a compiler warning */
     GCState *gcstate = &tstate->interp->gc;
 
+#ifdef EXPERIMENTAL_ISOLATED_SUBINTERPRETERS
+    if (tstate->interp->config._isolated_interpreter) {
+        // bpo-40533: The garbage collector must not be run on parallel on
+        // Python objects shared by multiple interpreters.
+        return 0;
+    }
+#endif
+
     if (gcstate->debug & DEBUG_STATS) {
         PySys_WriteStderr("gc: collecting generation %d...\n", generation);
         show_stats_each_generations(gcstate);