RFR: 8258229: Crash in nmethod::reloc_string_for

Manuel Hässig duke at openjdk.org
Thu Apr 24 07:08:00 UTC 2025


## Issue Summary

The issue manifests in intermittent failures of test cases with `-XX:+PrintAssembly`. The reason for these intermittent failures is a deoptimization of the method before or during printing its assembly. In case that deoptimization makes the method not entrant, then the entry of that method is patched, but the relocation information is not updated. If the instruction at the method entry before patching had relocation info that prints a comment during assembly printing, printing that comment for the patched entry fails in case the operands of the original and patched instructions do not match.

## Change Summary

To fix this issue, this PR updates the relocation info when patching the method entry. To avoid any races between printing and deoptimizing, this PR acquires the`NMethodState_lock`for printing an `nmethod`.

All changes of this PR summarized:
 - add a regression test,
 - update the relocation information after patching the method entry for making it not entrant,
 - acquire the `NMethodStat_lock` in `print_nmethod()` to avoid changing the relocation information during printing.

## Testing

I ran tiers 1 through 3 and Oracle internal testing.

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Commit messages:
 - Hold NMethodState_lock while printing an nmethod
 - Update relocation info when making method not entrant
 - Add regression test

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24831/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=24831&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8258229
  Stats: 93 lines in 2 files changed: 93 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24831.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/24831/head:pull/24831

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24831


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