RFR: 8371581: C2: PhaseCCP should reach fixpoint by revisiting deeply-Value-d nodes [v4]
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 13 19:04:56 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 with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains six additional commits since the last revision:
- Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8371581-ccp-spooky-nodes
- More comments
- More restrictive CmpP check
- Tighten up comments and signatures
- Do Value() once
- Fix
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28288/files/82cd8dae..748b32eb
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28288&range=03
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28288&range=02-03
Stats: 171409 lines in 1004 files changed: 116469 ins; 26310 del; 28630 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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