RFR: JDK-8298298: NMT: count deltas are printed with 32-bit signed size [v3]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 19:41:45 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Deltas for counts in NMT differential reports are shown as signed int, restricting them to +-2g. These counts are number of malloc blocks, or number of classes, or number of threads. In all cases number of physically existing somethings.
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>> On large 64-bit machines they can conceivably overflow. Well, at least the malloc block counters. Granted, mallocing even just >2g number of 1 byte blocks costs about 40-50GB due to overhead in libc and NMT (on glibc). But it is conceivable.
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>> Patch changes delta printing from int to ssize_t.
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>> Note that I don't worry about overflowing SSIZE_MIN or SSIZE_MAX here. That would be ridiculous: we just cannot have that many physically existing things. Not on 64bit, not even on 32-bit where ssize_t is int, since in both cases the address space would be the limit. So, if the counters are that large, we have a different problem (probably counter overflow), and so we assert, resp. in release, ignore it.
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>> Note we have the same problem with diff sizes. I expect [8281213](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8281213) to fix that.
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Provide SSIZE_MAX, SSIZE_MIN for windows

Seems reasonable.

Thanks.

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11568