Request for review (XS): 8006431: os::Bsd::initialize_system_info() sets _physical_memory too large

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Hi Bengt,

The comment there needs to be updated because it's still talking about
usermem.

Thanks

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On Jan 18, 2013 7:48 AM, "Bengt Rutisson" <bengt.rutisson at oracle.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Mikael,
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> On 1/18/13 8:09 AM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>
>
>  Looks good, assuming u_long is a 64-bit type.
>
>
> Good point. It seems like u_long is a 64 bit value on OSX, but that's not
> guaranteed since it is just "unsigned long". I changed mem_val to be
> julong, which should always be 64 bit. (The instance variable
> _physical_memory is also a julong.)
>
> So, now it is a two-word review request  :)
>
> diff --git a/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp b/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp
> --- a/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp
> +++ b/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
>    int mib[2];
>    size_t len;
>    int cpu_val;
> -  u_long mem_val;
> +  julong mem_val;
>
>    /* get processors count via hw.ncpus sysctl */
>    mib[0] = CTL_HW;
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
>     * instead of hw.physmem because we need size of allocatable memory
>     */
>    mib[0] = CTL_HW;
> -  mib[1] = HW_USERMEM;
> +  mib[1] = HW_MEMSIZE;
>    len = sizeof(mem_val);
>    if (sysctl(mib, 2, &mem_val, &len, NULL, 0) != -1)
>         _physical_memory = mem_val;
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt
>
>
>
> /Mikael
>
> On 17 jan 2013, at 22:36, Bengt Rutisson <bengt.rutisson at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small fix?
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8006431/webrev.00/
>
> On OSX we used HW_USERMEM value from sysctl() to get the available
> physical memory on the machine. This is a 32 bit value but we store it in a
> 64 bit variable. This means that we get kind of random and normally very
> large values for what we think the physical memory is.
>
> We actually don't want a 32 bit value since we want to handle machines
> with more than 2 or 4 GB of memory. Instead of HW_USERMEM we should be
> using HW_MEMSIZE which will give us a 64 bit value.
>
> See:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/sysctl.3.html
>
> Thanks Staffan Larsen for both detecting the problem and providing a
> solution.
>
> This is a one-word-change. So, to save you a mouse click on the webrev
> link above, here is the diff:
>
> --- a/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp
> +++ b/src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
>     * instead of hw.physmem because we need size of allocatable memory
>     */
>    mib[0] = CTL_HW;
> -  mib[1] = HW_USERMEM;
> +  mib[1] = HW_MEMSIZE;
>    len = sizeof(mem_val);
>    if (sysctl(mib, 2, &mem_val, &len, NULL, 0) != -1)
>         _physical_memory = mem_val;
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt
>
>
>
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