RFR: JDK-8129626: G1: set_in_progress() and clear_started() needs a barrier on non-TSO platforms

[Per Liden]

Hi Bengt,

On 2015-06-24 09:28, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
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> Hi Vitaly,
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> On 2015-06-23 23:53, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
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>> Naive question - could this be converted into a numeric state field
>> that indicates the lifecycle (e.g 1 = in progress, 2 = started)?
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> Good question! That's a much simpler and more stable solution.
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> New webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8129626/webrev.02/

This looks much nicer, and I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't 
work. One little request though, can we name the states to match the 
function names, like Idle/Started/InProgress? And clear_in_progress() 
should probably be set_idle() to align with the rest.

cheers,
/Per

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> Thanks,
> Bengt
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>> sent from my phone
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>> On Jun 23, 2015 5:42 PM, "bill pittore" <bill.pittore at oracle.com
>> <mailto:bill.pittore at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>>     Generally when you have a storestore on the write side you need a
>>     loadload on the read side to prevent the second read from floating
>>     above the first one. The reading thread could read in_progress as
>>     0 before it reads starting. Meanwhile the write thread writes 1 to
>>     in_progress, issues storestore, clears starting. Reading thread
>>     then reads starting as 0. I don't know if the CGC mutex somehow
>>     eliminates this issue as I'm not familiar with the code in detail.
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>>     bill
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>>     On 6/23/2015 4:25 PM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
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>>>     Hi everyone,
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>>>     Could I have a couple of reviews for this change?
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>>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8129626
>>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8129626/webrev.00/
>>>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ebrutisso/8129626/webrev.00/>
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>>>     We need to add a barrier between the calls to set_in_progress()
>>>     and clear_started() to make sure that other threads sees the
>>>     correct value when they use ConcurrentMarkThread::during_cycle().
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>>>     Thanks to Per and Bertrand for helping out identifying and
>>>     sorting this out.
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>>>     From the bug report:
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>>>     ConcurrentMarkThread::during_cycle() is implemented as:
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>>>     bool during_cycle() { return started() || in_progress(); }
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>>>     So, it checks both ConcurrentMarkThread::_started and
>>>     ConcurrentMarkThread::_in_progress and they are meant to overlap.
>>>     That is, we should not set _started to false until after we have
>>>     set _in_progress to true. This is done in sleepBeforeNextCycle():
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>>>     void ConcurrentMarkThread::sleepBeforeNextCycle() {
>>>       // We join here because we don't want to do the
>>>     "shouldConcurrentMark()"
>>>       // below while the world is otherwise stopped.
>>>       assert(!in_progress(), "should have been cleared");
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>>>       MutexLockerEx x(CGC_lock, Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
>>>       while (!started() && !_should_terminate) {
>>>         CGC_lock->wait(Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
>>>       }
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>>>       if (started()) {
>>>         set_in_progress();
>>>         clear_started();
>>>       }
>>>     }
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>>>     On non-TSO platforms there is a risk that the write to
>>>     _in_progress (from set_in_progress()) is seen by other threads
>>>     after the write to _started (in clear_started()). In that case
>>>     there is a window when during_cycle() may return false even
>>>     though we are in a concurrent cycle.
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>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>     Bengt
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