Where is g struct define in golang source code?

Question

In golang source code, there is some code like:

MOVL    (g_sched+gobuf_sp)(SI), SP  // sp = m->g0->sched.sp

And in runtime/stubs.go I found

func getg() *g

But i can not find getg function or g struct, where is it?

Answer 1

The struct is in runtime2.go.

type g struct {
  // Stack parameters.
  // stack describes the actual stack memory: [stack.lo, stack.hi).
  // stackguard0 is the stack pointer compared in the Go stack growth prologue.

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The function's comment describes how that works:

The compiler rewrites calls to this function into instructions that fetch the g directly (from TLS or from the dedicated register).

To see how the compiler does this, check cmd/compile/internal/gc/typecheck.go:

if ..... && n.Left.Sym.Name == "getg" { ...