RFR: 8217717: ZGC: Broken oop map in C1 load barrier stub
Per Liden
per.liden at oracle.com
Thu Jan 24 13:57:57 UTC 2019
Thanks Erik!
/Per
On 1/24/19 2:49 PM, Erik Österlund wrote:
> Hi Per,
>
> Looks good.
>
> Thanks,
> /Erik
>
> On 2019-01-24 12:05, Per Liden wrote:
>> The C1 load barrier stub for ZGC can emit a patching area for a lea
>> instruction. However, the call into the VM to do the patching at this
>> site is not associated with a proper oop map. As a result, we can end
>> up with a stable oop in the base pointer register if a GC safepoint
>> happens when we enter the VM to patch.
>>
>> This problem is not super easy to reproduce by default, but is a
>> serious bug when it happens. However, it is fairly easy to reproduce
>> when also injecting a small delay in the
>> ZNMethodTable::register_nmethod().
>>
>> The proposed solution is to never allow patching to happen inside the
>> load barrier stub. Instead, if patching is needed, we emit the lea
>> instruction as part of the load preceding the load barrier. That will
>> automatically generate the proper oop map for the patch site.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8217717
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8217717/webrev.0
>>
>> Testing: Manual testing and inspection of generated code. Passes
>> gc-test-suite. Currently running tier1-3 on all platforms, and tier1-7
>> on Linux/x86.
>>
>> /Per
>
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