Contribution: Lock Contention Profiler for HotSpot

[Alex Bagehot]

Seems release was removed:
http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4986044
and... https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038441

Related, there is a dtrace/systemtap probe for exit
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-April/005445.html

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Manson <jeremymanson at google.com> wrote:
> Why aren't these extensions to JVMTI, which already has
> MonitorContendedEnter and MonitorContendedEntered events?  You could just
> add a MonitorContendedRelease event to cover what you want.  Then the bulk
> of the tracking work can be done in JVMTI.
>
> At Google, we've built on these JVMTI primitives quite successfully.  The
> only internal enhancements we've had to make is to make them support j.u.c
> locks.
>
> (We've also done the hotspot lock contention work, but it has been less
> directly useful.)
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:26 AM, David Gnedt <David.Gnedt at jku.at> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am one of the authors of this work and I gladly support this
>> contribution.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> David Gnedt
>>
>> >>> Peter Hofer <peter.hofer at jku.at> 04.11.16 11.01 Uhr >>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> we are researchers at the University of Linz and have worked on a lock
>> contention profiler that is built into HotSpot. We would like to
>> contribute this work to the OpenJDK community.
>>
>> Our profiler records an event when a thread fails to acquire a contended
>>
>> lock and also when a thread releases a contended lock. It further
>> efficiently records the stack traces where these events occur. We
>> devised a versatile visualization tool that analyzes the recorded events
>>
>> and determines when and where threads _cause_ contention by holding a
>> contended lock. The visualization tool can show the contention by stack
>> trace, by lock, by lock class, by thread, and by any combination of
>> those aspects.
>>
>> We described our profiler in more detail in a research paper at ICPE
>> 2016. [1] In our evaluation, we found that the overhead is typically
>> below 10% for common multi-threaded Java benchmarks. Please find a free
>> download of the paper on our website:
>> > http://mevss.jku.at/lct/
>>
>> I contribute this work on behalf of Dynatrace Austria (the sponsor of
>> this research), my colleagues David Gnedt and Andreas Schoergenhumer,
>> and myself. The necessary OCAs have already been submitted.
>>
>> We provide two patches:
>>
>> Patch 1. A patch for OpenJDK 8u102-b14 with the profiler that we
>> described and evaluated in our paper, plus minor improvements. It
>> records events for Java intrinsic locks (monitors) and for
>> java.util.concurrent locks (ReentrantLock and ReentrantReadWriteLock).
>> We support only Linux on 64-bit x86 hardware.
>>
>> >
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/phofer/webrev_hotspot_jdk8u102b14/
>> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/phofer/webrev_jdk_jdk8u102b14/
>>
>> Patch 2. A patch for OpenJDK 9+140 with a profiler for VM-internal
>> native locks only. We consider this to be useful for HotSpot developers
>> to find locking bottlenecks in HotSpot itself. We tested this patch only
>>
>> on Linux on 64-bit x86 hardware, but it should require few changes for
>> other platforms.
>>
>> >
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/phofer/webrev_
>> nativelocksonly_hotspot_jdk9%2b140/
>> >
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/phofer/webrev_
>> nativelocksonly_jdk_jdk-9%2b140/
>>
>> With both patches, the profiler is enabled with -XX:+EnableEventTracing.
>>
>> By default, an uncompressed event trace is written to file "output.trc".
>>
>> More detailed usage information and a download of the corresponding
>> visualization tool is available on our website,
>> http://mevss.jku.at/lct/.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>   Peter Hofer
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Hofer
>> Christian Doppler Laboratory on Monitoring and Evolution of
>> Very-Large-Scale Software Systems / Institute for System Software
>> University of Linz
>>
>>
>> [1] Peter Hofer, David Gnedt, Andreas Schoergenhumer, Hanspeter
>> Moessenboeck. Efficient Tracing and Versatile Analysis of Lock
>> Contention in Java Applications on the Virtual Machine Level.
>> Proceedings of the 7th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance
>> Engineering (ICPE’16), Delft, Netherlands, 2016.
>>
>>
>>