Withdrawn: 8279016: JFR Leak Profiler is broken with Shenandoah

duke duke at openjdk.org
Tue Sep 24 15:58:47 UTC 2024


On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:26:45 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> While testing unrelated Shenandoah patch, I caught a GC assert when Leak Profiler was running ([JDK-8337194](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8337194)). 
> 
> Leak Profiler is notorious in using the mark words for its own needs. We have been trying to mitigate its impact on GCs by moving to separate bitsets for tracking marked objects, or by treating "marked without fwdptr" as "JFR marked" and handling it. But this is not reliable, since things like [putting indexes in mark word](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/3baff2af6a30cc6cb2e0d4391db1cf7e61c33f64/src/hotspot/share/jfr/leakprofiler/chains/edgeStore.cpp#L275-L280) sneak in. This is okay for Leak Profiler alone, since it restores the mark words after the operation completes, but that is still not enough when GC is already running.
> 
> I say we side-step this whack-a-mole by cleanly bailing from JFR op, when we know it is unsafe to do. I thought to use `VM_Operation::doit_prologue`, but I think GC start may sneak in between checking in prologue and op start.
> 
> This realistically only affects Shenandoah. All other STW collectors would never see what Leak Profiler did with mark words. ZGC would not see it, since it does not care about mark words for its own operation.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] `jdk/jfr/event/oldobject/` pass by default (100x times)
>  - [x] `jdk/jfr/event/oldobject/` pass with `-XX:+UseShenandoah` (1000x)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20328


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