RFR: 8371581: C2: PhaseCCP should reach fixpoint by revisiting deeply-Value-d nodes [v2]
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 13 13:24:37 UTC 2025
> I started this as investigation into one rare/intermittent CTW failure that I get with [JDK-8360557](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8360557). The bug seems to reproduce on a very specific JAR with a very specific random seed, so no easy regression test.
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> At this point I believe we found that PhaseCCP does not reach the fix point for a peculiar reason: `LoadN` that looks deeply into the graph is not revisited and thus misses the chance to update its type. There is an exception for loads in `verify_Value_for`, but it seems to only apply to constants, and does not apply to `LoadN` in question. Revisiting `LoadN` shows that updating the types downstream performs type widenings (= current types are too narrow), which AFAICS says that this unsound analysis can lead to miscompilation. See more debugging breadcrumbs in the bug.
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> It looks like we can reach the fixpoint by recording the nodes we need to revisit and doing another CCP round. This also makes CCP verification stricter: we effectively move 2 exceptional cases recorded in `verify_Value_for` into the analysis itself.
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> Testing shows there are no ill effects on correctness doing this. But I would appreciate someone more savvy in this code to sanity check all of this.
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> Additional testing:
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, CTW reproducer no longer fails
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `all` tests pass
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, Maven Central CTW passes (!)
Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with three additional commits since the last revision:
- More restrictive CmpP check
- Tighten up comments and signatures
- Do Value() once
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288/files/bad9e384..adcfa567
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28288&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28288&range=00-01
Stats: 74 lines in 2 files changed: 33 ins; 32 del; 9 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28288/head:pull/28288
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288
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