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

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 15:01:39 UTC 2017


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> 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/
>
> 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> 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> 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/
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Lutz
>     >
>     >
>     > Dr. Lutz Schmidt | SAP JVM | PI  SAP CP Core | T: +49 (6227) 7-42834
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On 16.03.17, 11:28, "Volker Simonis" <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Schmidt, Lutz <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/
>     >     >
>     >     > 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> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Haley <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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