Modifying graph to include InvokeNode

Doug Simon doug.simon at oracle.com
Tue Jul 16 10:39:43 PDT 2013


As much as C2? If so, that's a pleasant surprise (to me at least).

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On Jul 16, 2013, at 7:31 PM, Thomas Wuerthinger <thomas.wuerthinger at oracle.com> wrote:

> Actually Graal fully supports and optimizes invokedynamic and JSR292 code.
> 
> - thomas
> 
> On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07/16/2013 05:27 PM, Doug Simon wrote:
>>>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Christophe Dubach <christophe.dubach at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Doug,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm currently supervising Chris with his work and have been following the discussion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am quite surprised that it is not possible to add an InvokeNode in a the graph of a method at runtime. When you say "We can only add static calls that are guaranteed to never be deoptimized" do you mean the callee or the caller? I am probably ignorant but I don't see what would be the difference between inserting an invokeNode to static method (not created dynamically) and an IntergerAdd node in the graph at runtime.
>>>> An invoke node (that doesn't get inlined) in method A that calls method B will result in a call in the generated code. During execution of B, something may happen to invalidate an assumption made when compiling A (e.g., class loading invalidating a class hierarchy speculation). This means A is now invalid and needs to be deoptimized upon return from B. In the current system, we rely on HotSpot's deoptimization infrastructure to continue execution at the return site of A in the interpreter. HotSpot only (currently) supports deoptimize-on-return for call sites that have the BCI of an invoke bytecode.
>>>> 
>>>> One could modify HotSpot to have more general deoptimization support or we could modify Graal to handle invokes inserted for instrumentation. However, both of these tasks are non-trivial. Since our current focus is not on making Graal an all purpose instrumentation framework, we probably won't invest much effort in them in the near future.
>>>> 
>>>>> Anyway, thanks for the suggestion of doing bytecode instrumentation. Is it possible to do this directly with Graal or where you talking about patching the method at class load time?
>>>> The latter. Although you could use Graal in conjunction with a bytecode instrumentation library such as ASM for building a graph from the bytecode and finding the loops.
>>>> 
>>>>> In our scenario, we want to limit our instrumentation to hot methods in order to further optimise them, therefore, we were aiming to do all this in the jit compiler.
>>>> What you really want is a Java interpreter based on Truffle[1][2]. We have gone someway down this path ourselves but don't yet have anything publicly available.
>>> 
>>> The other solution is to use invokedynamic, if Graal support it ?
>> 
>> It supports it but does not (yet) optimize it.
>> 
>> -Doug
>> 
>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Christophe.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 16/07/13 14:43, Doug Simon wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:27 PM, ATKIN-GRANVILLE Chris <s1255753 at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Oh, that may have been a silly thing to say, I know you can't "get" the BCI of a method call that doesn't exist in the bytecode. Even still, it seems like quite a large omission from graal to not be able to add static method calls into a graph…
>>>>>> We can only add static calls that are guaranteed to never be deoptimized since there is no valid interpreter state to continue in for such invocations. I doubt that any bytecode compiler that relies on deoptimization could do any different…
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For your use case, bytecode instrumentation is what you want. Especially since you (seem to) need complete dynamic coverage of the code patterns you are interested in instrumenting.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Doug
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 16 Jul 2013, at 14:19, ATKIN-GRANVILLE Chris <s1255753 at sms.ed.ac.uk>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Is it not possible to somehow "get" that BCI? It doesn't seem like adding static method calls should be impossible when graph transformations are possible...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 16 Jul 2013, at 14:14, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> This is almost certainly due to the fact that an invoke node must be associated with the BCI of a real invoke bytecode instruction. Otherwise, where would the interpreter resume if there is a deoptimization  during the invocation?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:22 PM, ATKIN-GRANVILLE Chris <s1255753 at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to modify the graph to include an invoke node to a static function after certain node types. I'm modifying the graph at a high level before LoweringPhase.class (not a requirement, can change if required). However, I'm running into issues with JVM fatal errors. The code I have at the moment looks like this:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> public class MyPhase extends Phase {
>>>>>>>>>>    public void run(StructuredGraph graph) {
>>>>>>>>>>        for (Node node: graph.getNode()) {
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>            if ( node instanceof RandomFixedNode) {
>>>>>>>>>>                RandomFixedNode rfm = (RandomFixedNode) node;
>>>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>>>>                try {
>>>>>>>>>>                    ResolvedJavaMethod method = getMethod(…);
>>>>>>>>>>                    MethodCallTargetMode callTarget = graph.add(new MethodCallTargetNode(MethodCallTargetNode.InvokeKind.Static,
>>>>>>>>>>                        method, new ValueNode[] {}, new HotSpotResolvedPrimitiveType(Kind.Void)));
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>                    InvokeNode invoke = graph.add(new InvokeNode(callTarget, FrameState.UNKNOWN_BCI));
>>>>>>>>>>                    invoke.setStateAfter(graph.add(new FrameState(FrameState.UNKNOWN_BCI)));
>>>>>>>>>>                    graph.addAfterFixed(rfm, invoke);
>>>>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>>>>                } catch (Exception e) {
>>>>>>>>>>                    e.printStackTrace();
>>>>>>>>>>                }
>>>>>>>>>>            }
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>        }
>>>>>>>>>>    }
>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I'm pretty sure the problem is do with the BCIs and/or the FrameStates, but I don't know how to fix it. The error that I get is:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Internal Error (/Volumes/Acme/Development/graal/src/share/vm/graal/graalCompilerToVM.cpp:44), pid=8466, tid=5379
>>>>>>>>>> assert(hotspot_method != NULL && hotspot_method->is_a(HotSpotResolvedJavaMethod::klass())) failed: sanity
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, Chris
>>>>>>>>>> 
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