RFR: 8213565: Crash in DependencyContext::remove_dependent_nmethod

Erik Österlund erik.osterlund at oracle.com
Tue Nov 27 07:15:39 UTC 2018


Hi,

Small fix to add new constructor for nmethod to allow making dummy 
nmethods for the test_dependencyContext.cpp that no longer works with 
not properly constructed dummy nmethods due to requiring a vtable to 
call is_unloading() on them.

Incremental:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213565/webrev.01_02/

Full:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213565/webrev.02/

Still need one more reviewer for this change.

/Erik

On 2018-11-23 16:24, Erik Österlund wrote:
> Hi Robbin,
> 
> Thanks for the review.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> On 2018-11-23 16:26, Robbin Ehn wrote:
>> Looks good, thanks!
>>
>> /Robbin
>>
>> On 2018-11-23 16:16, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here is an updated version with some minor adjustments based on 
>>> feedback from Robbin Ehn.
>>>
>>> Incremental:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213565/webrev.00_01/
>>>
>>> Full:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213565/webrev.01/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>> On 2018-11-20 16:10, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>>> Ping.
>>>>
>>>> /Erik
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-11-12 23:02, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> In my change 8209189, I moved a lot of code around relating to code 
>>>>> cache unloading. Unfortunately, I failed to see that when making 
>>>>> nmethods unloaded, and their dependents are flushed... they are not 
>>>>> immediately removed. Instead, they are tagged to have stale 
>>>>> entries, that are later cleaned during weak metadata cleaning of 
>>>>> InstanceKlass. As for method handles, they leak instead, with some 
>>>>> hacks to reduce the leaking by expunging entries while adding and 
>>>>> removing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously, with InstanceKlass cleanup and code cache unloading now
>>>>> possibly running in parallel after 8209189, things can go wrong. 
>>>>> These two phases used
>>>>> to be separated by a "wait barrier" for the worker threads 
>>>>> preventing that parallelism.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason dependency contexts were not cleaned when they were found
>>>>> during code cache cleaning, is because it was not thread safe when 
>>>>> code
>>>>> cache unloading was made parallel instead of serial. But now that 
>>>>> we are
>>>>> implementing concurrent class unloading, we are going to need 
>>>>> concurrent
>>>>> cleanup of dependency contexts anyway. Therefore I will propose a 
>>>>> bug fix that fixes the problem in a way that works for both serial, 
>>>>> parallel and concurrent class unloading.
>>>>>
>>>>> The solution is to during code cache unloading claim cleaning of
>>>>> encountered stale dependency contexts, and clean them straight away.
>>>>> Entries are unlinked in a lock-free fashion, and placed on a purge 
>>>>> list that is walked and deleted during 
>>>>> ClassLoaderDataGraph::purge(). This follows the thinking of first 
>>>>> unlinking, then syncing all threads, and then purging.
>>>>>
>>>>> New accessors for the head and next links, hide is_unloading 
>>>>> entries and helps unlinking them and putting them into the purge list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Webrev:
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213565/webrev.00/
>>>>>
>>>>> Bug:
>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213565
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> /Erik
>>>>
>>>
> 


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