RFR (S) 8176580: [ppc, s390] CRC32C: wrong checksum result in some cases

Zoltán Majó zoltan.majo at oracle.com
Wed Apr 12 11:07:42 UTC 2017


Hi Volker,
Hi Lutz,


yesterday I tried to push webrev.03 using JPRT. Unfortunately, the 
TestCRC32C.java test you've modified fails on Mac OS X on x86_64. Do you 
have an idea why that could be?

Thank you! Best regards,


Zoltan

On 04/11/2017 06:03 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Thanks a lot Zoltan!
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Zoltán Majó <zoltan.majo at oracle.com 
> <mailto:zoltan.majo at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Volker,
>
>
>     On 04/11/2017 03:34 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>
>         Hi Zoltan,
>
>         could you please be so kind to sponsor this reviewed change
>         for jdk10?
>
>
>     yes, of course. I'll push it today.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>
>     Zoltan
>
>         Initially we wanted to push it ourselves because it was s390x
>         only but now that we've also touched the tests we need a sponsor.
>
>         Thank you and best regards,
>         Volker
>
>         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         From: *Volker Simonis* <volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>>>
>         Date: Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:53 AM
>         Subject: Re: RFR (S) 8176580: [ppc, s390] CRC32C: wrong
>         checksum result in some cases
>         To: "Schmidt, Lutz" <lutz.schmidt at sap.com
>         <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com> <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com
>         <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>>>
>         Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com <mailto:aph at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:aph at redhat.com <mailto:aph at redhat.com>>>,
>         "hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>>"
>         <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
>         <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>>>
>
>
>         Ping...
>
>         Can somebody please push this change?
>
>         It's ppc64/s390x only but as a courtesy to the community it
>         also fixes
>         the CRC JTreg tests so unfortunately I still can't push it
>         myself :)
>
>         Thank you and best regards,
>         Volker
>
>
>         On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Volker Simonis
>         <volker.simonis at gmail.com <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>         > Hi Lutz,
>         >
>         > thanks a lot for fixing the test!
>         > Your change looks good now.
>         >
>         > Because this touches shared (i.e. test) files, we still need
>         a sponsor
>         > so can somebody please sponsor this change?
>         >
>         > Thank you and best regards,
>         > Volker
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Schmidt, Lutz
>         <lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>
>         <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>>>
>         wrote:
>         >> Hi Volker,
>         >>
>         >> Sorry for letting you wait. Here is the final(?) webrev,
>         containing all your requests for cleanup and improvements:
>         >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lucy/webrevs/8176580.03/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.03/>
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.03/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.03/>>
>         >>
>         >> As before, the *.cpp files have not been modified.
>         >>
>         >> Best Regards,
>         >> Lutz
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> On 21/03/2017, 17:55, "Volker Simonis"
>         <volker.simonis at gmail.com <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>         >>
>         >>     Hi Lutz,
>         >>
>         >>     thanks a lot for updating the tests. I think they look
>         much better now.
>         >>
>         >>     There's just one more cleanup I'd like to propose. Can
>         you please move
>         >>     the throw right into the check() function. Just make
>         check() return
>         >>     void and throw from it if there's a mismatch between
>         the computed and
>         >>     the expected result. I leave it up to you if you want
>         to pass an extra
>         >>     error string to check() which will be printed in the
>         case of an error.
>         >>     I personally don't think that's necessary as it will be
>         evident from
>         >>     the stack trace which computation failed.
>         >>
>         >>     Also the try/catch and rethrow in test_multi() isn't
>         necessary. The
>         >>     test can be simply terminated by the initial exception.
>         >>
>         >>     Thank you and best regards,
>         >>     Volker
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>     On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Schmidt, Lutz
>         <lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>
>         <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>>>
>         wrote:
>         >>     > Hi Volker,
>         >>     >
>         >>     > Thanks a lot for your valuable hints.
>         >>     >
>         >>     > I have worked some time on the Java test files:
>         >>     >   TestCRC32.java and TestCRC32C.java are now
>         identical as far as possible.
>         >>     >   They now throw an exception, should any error be
>         detected.
>         >>     >   The “reference CRC value” is now used in
>         test_multi() as well.
>         >>     >   The extra test runs have been removed again.
>         >>     >   The test methodology is fixed: each result is
>         tested against its reference.
>         >>     >   The tests now detect the bug introduced with
>         8175368 and 8175369.
>         >>     >   No issue is indicated when testing with 8176580.
>         >>     >   I ran jcheck, and to the best of my ability and
>         knowledge, there is no trailing whitespace.
>         >>     >   All *.cpp files were left untouched!
>         >>     >
>         >>     > The next iteration of the webrev:
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lucy/webrevs/8176580.02/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.02/>
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.02/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.02/>>
>         >>     >
>         >>     > Best regards,
>         >>     > Lutz
>         >>     >
>         >>     >
>         >>     > Dr. Lutz Schmidt | SAP JVM | PI  SAP CP Core | T: +49
>         (6227) 7-42834 <tel:%2B49%20%286227%29%207-42834>
>         <tel:%2B49%20%286227%29%207-42834>
>         >>     >
>         >>     >
>         >>     >
>         >>     > On 16.03.17, 11:28, "Volker Simonis"
>         <volker.simonis at gmail.com <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Schmidt, Lutz
>         <lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>
>         <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com <mailto:lutz.schmidt at sap.com>>>
>         wrote:
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > Hi Andrew, Volker,
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > What do you think about these test enhancements?
>         >>     >     >   Webrev:
>         http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lucy/webrevs/8176580.01/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.01/>
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.01/
>         <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Elucy/webrevs/8176580.01/>>
>
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > Please note: the cpp files in the webrev
>         remained unchanged.
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > I added some improvements (as I believe) to the
>         TestCRC32(C).java files.
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > In some more detail:
>         >>     >     > The test now calculates a “reference CRC
>         value”, based on a java implementation of the CRC32 algorithm.
>         This reference value is used to verify all other crc values,
>         in particular during initialization and warmup. Three
>         additional test runs check a non-zero offset with –Xint,
>         -Xcomp -XX:-TieredCompilation (C2 only), -Xcomp
>         -XX:+TieredCompilation (C1 + C2).
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     Hi Lutz,
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     thanks for updating the tests. I've had a closer
>         look at the tests and
>         >>     >     realized that they actually can never fail! The
>         check() routine just
>         >>     >     prints an error message but that will not let the
>         test fail. So I
>         >>     >     would suggest to throw a runtime exception in the
>         check() routine
>         >>     >     after the error message was printed.
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     I also suggest to do the check during the normal
>         test execution (i.e.
>         >>     >     in test_multi()) so there's no need for extra
>         test runs.
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     Finally, the current test methodology in
>         test_multi() is broken:
>         >>     >      - it sets the reference by calling CRC from the
>         interpreter which
>         >>     >     won't work if the intrinsic is also used in the
>         interpreter.
>         >>     >      - it only compares the reference against the
>         last computation of CRC
>         >>     >     in the loop which will be the result of the C2
>         generated code. This
>         >>     >     misses errors in C1.
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     I suggest to use your new, pure Java
>         implementation for the
>         >>     >     computation of the reference result and compare
>         the reference with the
>         >>     >     result of calling CRC in every iteration of the
>         loop so we really
>         >>     >     check all possibilities from interpreter trough
>         C1 to C2.
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     Finally, can you please pay attention to not
>         insert trailing
>         >>     >     whitespace (there was some at line 88 in
>         TestCRC32C.java). You can
>         >>     >     easily verify this by running jcheck before
>         creating the webrevs.
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     Thanks,
>         >>     >     Volker
>         >>     >
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > Best regards,
>         >>     >     > Lutz
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     > On 15.03.17, 11:50, "Volker Simonis"
>         <volker.simonis at gmail.com <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com
>         <mailto:volker.simonis at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Andrew
>         Haley <aph at redhat.com <mailto:aph at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:aph at redhat.com <mailto:aph at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>         >>     >     >     > On 14/03/17 13:12, Schmidt, Lutz wrote:
>         >>     >     >     >
>         >>     >     >     >> Yes, one might think of running a test
>         suite subset multiple times
>         >>     >     >     >> with different parameters. In this case,
>         -Xint and/or –Xcomp were
>         >>     >     >     >> helpful. Forcing tests to run fully
>         interpreted or fully compiled
>         >>     >     >     >> helps in cases where a certain function,
>         e.g. an intrinsic, is
>         >>     >     >     >> invoked via distinct code paths.
>         >>     >     >     >
>         >>     >     >     > Right, so your patch should include that
>         change to the test suite.
>         >>     >     >     >
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     Hi Lutz,
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     I agree with Andrew. We should really fix
>         the tests such that they
>         >>     >     >     check the correctness of the intrinsics.
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     This may be tricky if all three, the
>         interpreter, the client and the
>         >>     >     >     server compiler use the same intrinsic
>         implementation. You could
>         >>     >     >     either copy the pure Java implementation
>         into the test so that you can
>         >>     >     >     compare the results of the intrinsic
>         operation against it or you can
>         >>     >     >     switch them off in the compilers with
>         >>     >     > "-XX:DisableIntrinsic=_updateBytesCRC32C
>         >>     >     >
>         -XX:DisableIntrinsics=_updateDirectByteBufferCRC32C" and
>         compare the
>         >>     >     >     results. Not sure which solution is more
>         practical, but I would be
>         >>     >     >     really scared if we wouldn't have these test.
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     Regards,
>         >>     >     >     Volker
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >     > Andrew.
>         >>     >     >     >
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >     >
>         >>     >
>         >>     >
>         >>
>         >>
>
>
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