RFR: 8369902: C2 SuperWord: wrong result because filterin NaN instead of zero in MemPointerParser::canonicalize_raw_summands [v2]
Emanuel Peter
epeter at openjdk.org
Mon Oct 20 05:53:52 UTC 2025
> **TLDR** `is_NaN` -> `is_zero`, just like the code comment says.
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> Thanks to @mhaessig for debugging the ARM32 bug below. He found the buggy line of code.
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> **Details**
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> It seems there is a little "typo" (logic error) in `MemPointerParser::canonicalize_raw_summands` that slipped through the cracks in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/24278. The JavaFuzzer now found an example, and independently the issue was also reported on ARM32 [JDK-8368578](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368578).
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> Filtering out `NaN` instead of `zero` for the `scaleL` has two manifestations:
> - If `scaleL` is zero, but does not get filtered out even though it should be: we hit the assert in `MemPointerSummand` constructor, `assert(!_scale.is_zero(), "non-zero scale");`.
> - See [JDK-8368578](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368578), though those tests seem to only fail on ARM32, and nowhere else.
> - I was able to construct a `MemorySegment` regression test, see `TestMemorySegmentFilterSummands.test1`. I suspect that the ARM32 failures happened on an array, as it failed in places like `BigInteger::implMultiplyToLen`. But now I was able to reproduce it with native memory, to get a pointer expression that has the same cancellation issue.
> - If `scaleL` is `NaN`, and gets filtered even though it should not be: We get a non-trivial MemPointer that is missing a summand. So we will succeed in optimizing, but with wrong assumptions. We generate a runtime aliasing check that is incorrect, leading to wrong results.
> - This was reported by the fuzzer, see attached `TestDoNotFilterNaNSummands`.
> - I was also able to create a simpler example with `MemorySegments`, see attached `TestMemorySegmentFilterSummands.test2`.
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> **Why did this slip through the cracks?**
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> In https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/24278 I added pretty extensive testing, even fuzzer style tests, see `TestAliasingFuzzer.java`. But I think all of those tests exercise `scale` that are in "nice" [int ranges](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/24278/files#diff-26de03e864a492fe8aa8178818968f2097b99cf36a763605e2fb11fbc04eedffR303-R322). Also the JavaFuzzer does not directly generate such long constants for array accesses (not possible without Unsafe I think), we were lucky that it generated the index with `%` that got optimized to some magic long constant.
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> There is already an RFE filed for improvements to `TestAliasingFuzzer.java`: [JDK-8365985](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-836...
Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
Update test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/loopopts/superword/TestMemorySegmentFilterSummands.java
Co-authored-by: Manuel Hässig <manuel at haessig.org>
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27848/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27848/files/3398c465..e19a22f7
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27848&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27848&range=00-01
Stats: 4 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27848.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27848/head:pull/27848
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27848
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