RFR: 8306767: Concurrent repacking of extra data in MethodData is potentially unsafe [v11]
Emanuel Peter
epeter at openjdk.org
Wed Jan 3 09:11:54 UTC 2024
> As explained in a [comment below](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/16840#issuecomment-1833529561), we have to ensure that reading/writing/cleaning the extra data all needs to be guarded by the `extra_data_lock`, and that no safepoint should happen while holding that lock, so that the lock is not broken.
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> I introduced `check_extra_data_locked`, where I check that we hold the lock, and if we are a java thread (only those ever safepoint), that we currently are in a `NoSafepointVerifier` scope, hence we verify that no safepoint will be taken.
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> I placed `check_extra_data_locked` in all the places where we access the extra data, and then placed locks and no-safepoint-verifiers at the call-site of those places.
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> I also needed to change the rank of `extra_data_lock` to `nosafepoint` and set the `Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag` when taking the lock. Otherwise I could not take the lock from a VM thread.
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> **Complications with ttyl**
> There were a few places in printing code, where did `ttyLocker ttyl;`, and then in that scope we would access the extra data. Now that I introduced locking with `extra_data_lock`, this ran into asserts which check the lock ranks: `ttyl` has a very low rank, and `extra_data_lock` a rather high lock. Hence, we cannot lock `extra_data_lock` inside a `ttyl` scope.
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> If we were to simply remove the `ttyl` locking, then the many print lines inside that scope might be interrupted and another thread can insert other printing in between. To avoid that, I now first buffer all lines in a `stringStream`, and then print that buffered stream to `tty` all at once, which means no other printing can be injected in between.
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> **Testing**
> Testing: tier1-3 and stress.
Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 12 commits:
- Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8306767
- removed some ttyl cases, which collided with the extra_data_lock
- remove more locking
- fix conflicts with tty lock
- move a lock to earlier, to have order right with tty lock
- missed a case where I need to lock
- make lock not safepointing
- manual merge with master after JDK-8267532
- more locking, still fails tho - WIP
- adding more verification and more locking, WIP
- ... and 2 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/cbe329b9...2bda9d7c
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16840/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16840&range=10
Stats: 222 lines in 22 files changed: 141 ins; 14 del; 67 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16840.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16840/head:pull/16840
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16840
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