Round 3: RFR: 8013651 NMT: reserve/release sequence id's in incorrect order due to race

Zhengyu Gu zhengyu.gu at oracle.com
Tue Jun 11 05:33:13 PDT 2013


I think it is in ClassPathZipEntry::open_stream() (src/share/vm/classfile/classLoader.cpp #243)

-Zhengyu


On Jun 11, 2013, at 3:42 AM, David Holmes wrote:

> On 8/06/2013 12:55 AM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>> On 6/6/2013 10:31 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> I'm confused about the expectations of the constructor:
>>> 
>>> MemTracker::Tracker::Tracker(MemoryOperation op, Thread* thr)
>>> 
>>> Is thr, if not NULL, always the current thread? If so, then I don't
>>> think it would be allocating from a SafepointSafe state; and if not
>>> then it could change state immediately after you have checked it!
>>> 
>> Yes, thr is the current thread, and we actually do classloading in
>> _thread_in_native state, following is the stack.
>> 
>> >
>> jvm.dll!MemTracker::Tracker::Tracker(MemTracker::Tracker::MemoryOperation op,
>> Thread * thr)  Line 729    C++
>>      jvm.dll!MemTracker::record_arena_size(unsigned char * addr,
>> unsigned int size)  Line 344    C++
>>      jvm.dll!Arena::set_size_in_bytes(unsigned int size)  Line 532 +
>> 0xd bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!Arena::grow(unsigned int x,
>> AllocFailStrategy::AllocFailEnum alloc_failmode)  Line 570    C++
>>      jvm.dll!Arena::Amalloc(unsigned int x,
>> AllocFailStrategy::AllocFailEnum alloc_failmode)  Line 388 + 0x10
>> bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!ResourceArea::allocate_bytes(unsigned int size,
>> AllocFailStrategy::AllocFailEnum alloc_failmode)  Line 71    C++
>>      jvm.dll!resource_allocate_bytes(unsigned int size,
>> AllocFailStrategy::AllocFailEnum alloc_failmode)  Line 39    C++
>>      jvm.dll!ClassPathZipEntry::open_stream(const char * name)  Line
>> 265 + 0xe bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!LazyClassPathEntry::open_stream(const char * name) Line
>> 323    C++
>>      jvm.dll!ClassLoader::load_classfile(Symbol * h_name, Thread *
>> __the_thread__)  Line 900 + 0x17 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!SystemDictionary::load_instance_class(Symbol * class_name,
>> Handle class_loader, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 1284 + 0x14 bytes
>> C++
>>      jvm.dll!SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null(Symbol *
>> name, Handle class_loader, Handle protection_domain, Thread *
>> __the_thread__)  Line 769 + 0x18 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null(Symbol * class_name,
>> Handle class_loader, Handle protection_domain, Thread * __the_thread__)
>> Line 227 + 0x15 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(Symbol * class_name,
>> Handle class_loader, Handle protection_domain, bool throw_error, Thread
>> * __the_thread__)  Line 166 + 0x15 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!ConstantPool::klass_at_impl(constantPoolHandle this_oop,
>> int which, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 252 + 0x17 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!ConstantPool::klass_at(int which, Thread *
>> __the_thread__)  Line 352 + 0x1b bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!InterpreterRuntime::anewarray(JavaThread * thread,
>> ConstantPool * pool, int index, int size)  Line 187 + 0x10 bytes C++
>>      02ee6241()
> 
> So this is an IRT_ENTRY that puts us _thread_in_vm. Where does the transition to _thread_in_native occur in the subsequent frames?
> 
> David
> -----
> 
>>      jvm.dll!JavaCalls::call_helper(JavaValue * result, methodHandle *
>> m, JavaCallArguments * args, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 402 + 0x36
>> bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!os::os_exception_wrapper(void (JavaValue *, methodHandle
>> *, JavaCallArguments *, Thread *)* f, JavaValue * value, methodHandle *
>> method, JavaCallArguments * args, Thread * thread)  Line 113 + 0x13
>> bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!JavaCalls::call(JavaValue * result, methodHandle method,
>> JavaCallArguments * args, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 307 + 0x1a
>> bytes    C++
>> jvm.dll!InstanceKlass::call_class_initializer_impl(instanceKlassHandle
>> this_oop, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 1125 + 0x1f bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!InstanceKlass::call_class_initializer(Thread *
>> __the_thread__)  Line 1093 + 0xd bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!InstanceKlass::initialize_impl(instanceKlassHandle
>> this_oop, Thread * __the_thread__)  Line 843    C++
>>      jvm.dll!InstanceKlass::initialize(Thread * __the_thread__) Line
>> 502 + 0xd bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!initialize_class(Symbol * class_name, Thread *
>> __the_thread__)  Line 973 + 0x20 bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs * args, bool *
>> canTryAgain)  Line 3479 + 0xf bytes    C++
>>      jvm.dll!JNI_CreateJavaVM(JavaVM_ * * vm, void * * penv, void *
>> args)  Line 5113 + 0xd bytes    C++
>>      java.exe!013713c1()
>>      [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded
>> for java.exe]
>>      java.exe!01371e78()
>>      java.exe!0137cf67()
>>      java.exe!0137ab83()
>>      java.exe!0137cfa5()
>>      java.exe!0137ac0d()
>>      kernel32.dll!768b3677()
>>      ntdll.dll!76fe9f42()
>>      ntdll.dll!76fe9f15()
>> 
>> 
>>> In memTracker.hpp for the !INCLUDE_NMT case class Tracker doesn't have
>>> an allocation-type as a supertype. I'm also unclear whether the
>>> methods that have:
>>> 
>>> return Tracker();
>>> 
>>> are going to be returning a stack-allocated object, or whether this
>>> will actually force use of a copy-constructor at the call site. We
>>> really want this to be a no-op (or as close as possible) when NMT is
>>> not compiled in. Perhaps a static singleton instance of Tracker could
>>> be used instead?
>>> 
>> Yes, static on can help solaris. Windows and Linux all optimize the copy
>> constructor away.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Zhengyu
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>> 
>>> On 5/06/2013 12:26 AM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>>>> Round 3:
>>>> 
>>>> Based on Coleen and Stefan's comment, reverted most of NMT tracking
>>>> calls to original to reduce code changes.
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8013651/webrev.03/
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ezgu/8013651/webrev.03/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Tests:
>>>>   JPRT
>>>>   vm.quick.testlist on Linux 32
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> -Zhengyu
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/22/2013 10:28 AM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>>>>> Based on the discussion with Karen, Coleen and Harold, following
>>>>> changes are made:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1) Renamed NMTTrackOp to NMTTracker, avoid the confusion with VM
>>>>> operations.
>>>>> 2) Used NMTTracker's dtor to discard the tracking operation if no
>>>>> recording is done.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tests:
>>>>> - JPRT
>>>>> - vm.quick.testlist on Linux 32, Solaris sparcv9 and Windows 32.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Zhengyu
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/14/2013 10:01 AM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
>>>>>> There can be race conditions between the memory operations and the
>>>>>> book keeping records are written. For example, thread 1 releases a
>>>>>> virtual memory block, before it can write the release record, thread
>>>>>> 2 reserves the same virtual memory block and writes reservation
>>>>>> first, as result, NMT indicates the block is "released".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The solution is that, for those operations that can cause the race
>>>>>> conditions, NMT should pre-reserve sequence number for it, if the
>>>>>> operation succeeds, NMT uses pre-reserved sequence number to write
>>>>>> the record.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The tricky part is that, a sequence number is only good for the
>>>>>> generation it is acquired, when there are reserved sequence number,
>>>>>> NMT has to prevent itself from entering so called "sync-point" where
>>>>>> the generation can be advanced.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8013651
>>>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8013651/webrev/
>>>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ezgu/8013651/webrev/>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Tests:
>>>>>>   1) JPRT
>>>>>>   2) vm.quick.testlist on Linux 32, Linux x64 and Solaris Sparcv9
>>>>>>   3) Kitchensink on Linux 32, Linux x64, Solaris Sparcv9 and Windows
>>>>>> x64
>>>>>>   4) NMT jtreg tests on Linux 32, Linux x64 and Solaris Sparcv9
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Zhengyu
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 



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