RFR: 8245203/8245204/8245208: ZGC: Don't hold the ZPageAllocator lock while committing/uncommitting memory

[Per Liden]

On 5/19/20 11:10 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> On 2020-05-18 23:23, Per Liden wrote:
>> Please review this series of three patches to rework the page 
>> allocation path so that we don't hold the ZPageAllocator lock while 
>> committing/uncommitting memory. Patch 1 & 2 are small and preparatory. 
>> Patch 3 is the main patch and it's unfortunately fairly large as it 
>> was hard to break up in a sensible way.
>>
>> ---------------------
>>
>> 1) 8245203: ZGC: Don't track size in ZPhysicalMemoryBacking
>>
>> To make it easier to allow for more concurrent commit/uncommit we 
>> should not track the backing "size" in ZPhysicalMemoryBacking. Instead 
>> we can add the full physical memory range (from 0 to max_capacity) to 
>> the list of uncommitted memory at startup. This removes the need to 
>> track and update the backing size (which otherwise needs to be 
>> properly synchronized).
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8245203
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8245203/webrev.0
> 
> Most of this looks good. You removed the EINTR while loop from the 
> ftruncate call. Is that not needed anymore?

That was an oversight on my part. Added it back.

diff --git a/src/hotspot/os/linux/gc/z/zPhysicalMemoryBacking_linux.cpp 
b/src/hotspot/os/linux/gc/z/zPhysicalMemoryBacking_linux.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/os/linux/gc/z/zPhysicalMemoryBacking_linux.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/os/linux/gc/z/zPhysicalMemoryBacking_linux.cpp
@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@
    }

    // Truncate backing file
-  if (ftruncate(_fd, max_capacity) == -1) {
-    ZErrno err;
-    log_error(gc)("Failed to truncate backing file (%s)", err.to_string());
-    return;
+  while (ftruncate(_fd, max_capacity) == -1) {
+    if (errno != EINTR) {
+      ZErrno err;
+      log_error(gc)("Failed to truncate backing file (%s)", 
err.to_string());
+      return;
+    }
    }

    // Get filesystem statistics


Thanks for reviewing!

cheers,
Per