RFR (S): JDK-6348447 - Specifying -XX:OldSize crashes 64-bit VMs

Jesper Wilhelmsson jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Tue Jan 15 13:41:14 UTC 2013


On 2013-01-15 14:32, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
>
> Hi Jesper,
>
> Is NewRatio guaranteed to be non-zero when used inside recommended_heap_size?
>
As far as I can see, yes. It defaults to two and is never set to zero.
/Jesper

> Thanks
>
> Sent from my phone
>
> On Jan 15, 2013 8:11 AM, "Jesper Wilhelmsson" <jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com 
> <mailto:jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jon,
>
>     Thank you for looking at this! I share your concerns and I have moved
>     the knowledge about policies to CollectorPolicy. set_heap_size() now
>     simply asks the collector policy if it has any recommendations regarding
>     the heap size.
>
>     Ideally, since the code knows about young and old generations, I guess
>     the new function "recommended_heap_size()" should be placed in
>     GenCollectorPolicy, but then the code would have to be duplicated for G1
>     as well. However, CollectorPolicy already know about OldSize and NewSize
>     so I think it is OK to put it there.
>
>     Eventually I think that we should reduce the abstraction level in the
>     generation policies and merge CollectorPolicy, GenCollectorPolicy and
>     maybe even TwoGenerationCollectorPolicy and if possible
>     G1CollectorPolicy, so I don't worry too much about having knowledge
>     about the two generations in CollectorPolicy.
>
>
>     A new webrev is available here:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/6348447/webrev.2/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejwilhelm/6348447/webrev.2/>
>
>     Thanks,
>     /Jesper
>
>
>
>     On 2013-01-14 19:00, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>
>         Jesper,
>
>         I'm a bit concerned that set_heap_size() now knows about how
>         the CollectorPolicy uses OldSize and NewSize.   In the distant
>         past set_heap_size() did not know what kind of collector was
>         going to be used and probably avoided looking at those
>         parameters for that reason.  Today we know that a generational
>         collector is to follow but maybe you could hide that knowledge
>         in CollectorPolicy somewhere and have set_heap_size() call into
>         CollectorPolicy to use that information?
>
>         Jon
>
>
>         On 01/14/13 09:10, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             I would like a couple of reviews of a small fix for JDK-6348447
>             - Specifying -XX:OldSize crashes 64-bit VMs
>
>             Webrev:
>             http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/6348447/webrev/
>             <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejwilhelm/6348447/webrev/>
>
>             Summary:
>             When starting HotSpot with an OldSize larger than the default
>             heap size one will run into a couple of problems. Basically what
>             happens is that the OldSize is ignored because it is
>             incompatible with the heap size. A debug build will assert since
>             a calculation on the way results in a negative number, but since
>             it is a size_t an if(x<0) won't trigger and the assert catches
>             it later on as incompatible flags.
>
>             Changes:
>             I have made two changes to fix this.
>
>             The first is to change the calculation in
>             TwoGenerationCollectorPolicy::adjust_gen0_sizes so that it won't
>             result in a negative number in the if statement. This way we
>             will catch the case where the OldSize is larger than the heap
>             size and adjust the OldSize instead of the young size. There are
>             also some cosmetic changes here. For instance the argument
>             min_gen0_size is actually used for the old generation size which
>             was a bit confusing initially. I renamed it to min_gen1_size
>             (which it already was called in the header file).
>
>             The second change is in Arguments::set_heap_size. My reasoning
>             here is that if the user sets the OldSize we should probably
>             adjust the heap size to accommodate that OldSize instead of
>             complaining that the heap is too small. We determine the heap
>             size first and the generation sizes later on while initializing
>             the VM. To be able to fit the generations if the user specifies
>             sizes on the command line we need to look at the generation size
>             flags a little already when setting up the heap size.
>
>             Thanks,
>             /Jesper
>
>

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