RFR: 8038332: The trace event vm/class/load is not always being sent

[Jiangli Zhou]

Thanks, Max. Do you have a new webrev?

Thanks,
Jiangli

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Max Ockner <max.ockner at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Jiangli,
> I have followed the suggestions from Ioi and Coleen to factor out all occurences of HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION.
> Thanks,
> Max
> 
> On 6/22/2016 1:53 PM, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
>> Hi Max,
>> 
>> I see there is already an ‘if (!HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION)’ check at line 1170 before the debug_only code. Maybe you cloud  place the post_class_load_event() in there so it only post the event when there is no pending exception. That way you don’t need to change the existing logic and add the additional checks.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jiangli
>> 
>>> On Jun 20, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Max Ockner <max.ockner at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> David,
>>> 
>>> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/8038332.02/src/share/vm/classfile/systemDictionary.cpp.cdiff.html
>>> I have added the check you suggested before triggering the event:
>>> 
>>> if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION || k.is_null()) {
>>>    return NULL;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Max
>>> 
>>> On 6/13/2016 6:40 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>>> Hi Max,
>>>> 
>>>> On 14/06/2016 3:42 AM, Max Ockner wrote:
>>>>> Jiangli,
>>>>> Thanks for looking.  I didn't see anything that looked like it might
>>>>> produce duplicate events. However, I did see some additional places
>>>>> where it looks like no event is fire.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can anyone point me to the event specs?
>>>> I'm not sure there is any spec for this. Even JFR doesn't seem to document individual events and when they are triggered.
>>>> 
>>>> Your change does not look right however as you are posting the classload event regardless of the exception state. If you look at SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null, it only posts after checking the load was successful:
>>>> 
>>>> 892   if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION || k.is_null()) {
>>>> 893     return NULL;
>>>> 894   }
>>>> 895
>>>> 896   post_class_load_event(class_load_start_time, k, class_loader);
>>>> 
>>>> Similarly, SystemDictionary::parse_stream, has various CHECK macros that will cause a return on exception, prior to getting to the point of posting the load event. So you also need to add a check for a pending exception and that k is not null, I think, before posting the event.
>>>> 
>>> I have added this check.
>>>> BTW I would have expected to see trace-events generated at approximately the same locations as the corresponding JVMTI events. That does not seem to be the case which seems very strange to me. The notion of "loading a class" seems to be spread across far too many functions to me.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Max
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/9/2016 4:39 PM, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Max,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Looks ok. The only possible issue is more than one event might be sent
>>>>>> in some of the call paths. But my quick search didn’t find any of such
>>>>>> case.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Jiangli
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jun 9, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Max Ockner <max.ockner at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Please review this small fix which causes the vm/class/load event to
>>>>>>> be fired from JVM_DefineClass() and JVM_DefineClassWithSource().
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/8038332/
>>>>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038332
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The vm/class/load event  (EventClassLoad) was previously fired in 2
>>>>>>> places:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> SystemDictionary::parse_stream
>>>>>>> SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> parse_stream is the standard option for creating a klass from a
>>>>>>> stream, but JVM_DefineClass uses a different function:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> SystemDictionary::resolve_from_stream.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This did not fire a vm/class/load event. Now it does fire the event.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sanity tested with jtreg runtime. Issue was reproduced and tested
>>>>>>> using the reproducer script attached to the bug
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Max
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