RFR: 8327963: C2: fix construction of memory graph around Initialize node to prevent incorrect execution if allocation is removed [v8]

[Roberto Castañeda Lozano]

On Thu, 22 May 2025 15:20:14 GMT, Roland Westrelin <roland at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> An `Initialize` node for an `Allocate` node is created with a memory
>> `Proj` of adr type raw memory. In order for stores to be captured, the
>> memory state out of the allocation is a `MergeMem` with slices for the
>> various object fields/array element set to the raw memory `Proj` of
>> the `Initialize` node. If `Phi`s need to be created during later
>> transformations from this memory state, The `Phi` for a particular
>> slice gets its adr type from the type of the `Proj` which is raw
>> memory. If during macro expansion, the `Allocate` is found to have no
>> use and so can be removed, the `Proj` out of the `Initialize` is
>> replaced by the memory state on input to the `Allocate`. A `Phi` for
>> some slice for a field of an object will end up with the raw memory
>> state on input to the `Allocate` node. As a result, memory state at
>> the `Phi` is incorrect and incorrect execution can happen.
>> 
>> The fix I propose is, rather than have a single `Proj` for the memory
>> state out of the `Initialize` with adr type raw memory, to use one
>> `Proj` per slice added to the memory state after the `Initalize`. Each
>> of the `Proj` should return the right adr type for its slice. For that
>> I propose having a new type of `Proj`: `NarrowMemProj` that captures
>> the right adr type.
>> 
>> Logic for the construction of the `Allocate`/`Initialize` subgraph is
>> tweaked so the right adr type captured in is own `NarrowMemProj` is
>> added to the memory sugraph. Code that removes an allocation or moves
>> it also has to be changed so it correctly takes the multiple memory
>> projections out of the `Initialize` node into account.
>> 
>> One tricky issue is that when EA split types for a scalar replaceable
>> `Allocate` node:
>> 
>> 1- the adr type captured in the `NarrowMemProj` becomes out of sync
>>   with the type of the slices for the allocation
>>   
>> 2- before EA, the memory state for one particular field out of the
>>   `Initialize` node can be used for a `Store` to the just allocated
>>   object or some other. So we can have a chain of `Store`s, some to
>>   the newly allocated object, some to some other objects, all of them
>>   using the state of `NarrowMemProj` out of the `Initialize`. After
>>   split unique types, the `NarrowMemProj` is for the slice of a
>>   particular allocation. So `Store`s to some other objects shouldn't
>>   use that memory state but the memory state before the `Allocate`.
>>   
>> For that, I added logic to update the adr type of `NarrowMemProj`
>> during split uni...
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> Roland Westrelin has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   review

src/hotspot/share/opto/multnode.cpp line 49:

> 47:   assert((Opcode() != Op_If && Opcode() != Op_RangeCheck) || which_proj == (uint)true || which_proj == (uint)false, "must be 1 or 0");
> 48:   assert(number_of_projs(which_proj) <= 1, "only when there's a single projection");
> 49:   auto find_proj = [which_proj, this](ProjNode* proj) {

This does not build on macosx-aarch64:


src/hotspot/share/opto/multnode.cpp:49:21: error: lambda capture 'which_proj' is not used [-Werror,-Wunused-lambda-capture]
   auto find_proj = [which_proj, this](ProjNode* proj) {

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24570#discussion_r2111379254