RFR(XS): 8178497: Bug in MutableNUMASpace::ensure_parsability

[sangheon.kim]

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for reviewing this.

On 11/21/2017 05:29 AM, Stefan Johansson wrote:
> Hi Sangheon,
>
> On 2017-11-20 20:05, sangheon.kim wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can I have some reviews for this tiny pointer arithmetic change?
>> Current code doesn't use pointer arithmetic, so the the resulting 
>> values are wrong(too small). i.e. adding two values first and then 
>> typecast to HeapWord* which is wrong here.
>> e.g.
>> intptr_t cur_top = X;
>> size_t touched_words = XX;
>> ...
>> align_down((HeapWord*)(cur_top + touched_words), XXX);
>>
>> This should be 'align_down( (HeapWord*)cur_top + touched_words, XXXX);'.
>>
>> As I don't see any good reason of using 'intptr_t', changed to use 
>> 'HeapWord*' and changed related stuff.
>>
>> I didn't add regression test or some further investigation as this is 
>> clear that the calculation is wrong. And hard to provoke the problem 
>> outside.
>>
>> CR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178497
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sangheki/8178497/webrev.0
> Thanks for taking care of this. I think the changes is good, but I 
> would feel even more certain if you ran some testing with NUMA and 
> Parallel to make sure we haven't overlooked anything.
Okay, I added some explanation about what would happen.
And also ran hundred runs of GCOld with NUMA enabled on Solaris, of 
course no problem.

Hope this is sufficient to go. :)

Thanks,
Sangheon


>
> Thanks,
> StefanJ
>> Testing: local building
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sangheon
>