RFR: 8369283: Improve trace logs in safepoint machinery [v7]
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.org
Thu Oct 9 08:55:44 UTC 2025
> During the performance investigations in safepoint machinery (notably [JDK-8350324](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350324)), I found the trace logging lacking. It would be good to improve it in order to finely profile various microscopic things like thread list walks, the blocking/resuming of Java threads, etc. For [JDK-8350324](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350324), for example, I want to be able to measure the Java thread delays if they assist in avalanche wakeups.
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> This leans heavily on unified logging and invariant clocks to do the right thing, but I think it is a fair compromise for simplicity. The configuration I found most useful for testing is:
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> -Xlog:async -Xlog:safepoint=trace:file=safepoint.log:uptimenanos
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> My tentative plan is to visualize this more comprehensively with a little tool that digests that log.
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> I am open for bikeshedding on logging wording. The log example is in the comment below.
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> Additional testing:
> - [x] Ad-hoc log peeking
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `tier1`
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `all`
Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
Do not bother changing the existing logging wording for "initiated"
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27673/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27673/files/945d612a..cccd8a32
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27673&range=06
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=27673&range=05-06
Stats: 3 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 3 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27673.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/27673/head:pull/27673
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27673
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