RFR: JDK-8059586: hs_err report should treat redirected core pattern.

Staffan Larsen staffan.larsen at oracle.com
Fri Dec 12 12:41:21 UTC 2014


Looks good! Sorry for going away for so long - just too many things right now.

Thanks,
/Staffan

> On 11 dec 2014, at 23:50, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I've been advised I need a second reviewer with an openjdk user name and as Staffan has not come back to this thread, that means I need one more reviewer from the runtime team please. And please check the email trail on this as it is quite long and I really don't want to revisit covered ground. :) Thanks.
> 
> David
> 
> On 10/12/2014 4:37 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Yasumasa,
>> 
>> On 9/12/2014 11:56 PM, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
>>> David, Thomas,
>>> 
>>> Thank you so much!
>>> I wait 2nd reviewer.
>> 
>> I'm a Reviewer and I think Thomas counts as a reviewer. Plus Staffan had
>> a look too. So I think this is good to go - though I'll give it till my
>> morning before finalizing it.
>> 
>>> BTW, I'm not a committer.
>>> So I'm also waiting a sponsor :-)
>> 
>> I will sponsor if you can prepare the changeset.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> 
>>>> I'm okay with these changes. Just a minor style nit (no need for
>>>> updated webrev) can you remove the blank lines in os_linux.cpp:
>>>> 
>>>> 6011       }
>>>> 6012
>>>> 6013     }
>>>> 6014
>>>> 6015   }
>>>> 
>>>> 6057       }
>>>> 6058
>>>> 6059     }
>>>> 6060
>>>> 6061   }
>>>> 
>>>> If anyone has any objections please raise them asap.
>>> 
>>> I will upload new webrev which is fix them after reviewing.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Yasumasa
>>> 
>>> 
>>> (2014/12/09 21:06), Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>>> Yes, Sure :-) @Yasumasa : thank you for this patch!
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards, Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 9, 2014 9:56 AM, "David Holmes" <david.holmes at oracle.com
>>>> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    Hi Thomas,
>>>> 
>>>>    So can we take this as-is for now and file a RFE to address your
>>>> concerns?
>>>> 
>>>>    Anybody else object to that?
>>>> 
>>>>    Thanks,
>>>>    David
>>>> 
>>>>    On 9/12/2014 6:09 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>        Hi David,
>>>> 
>>>>        On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:39 AM, David Holmes
>>>> <david.holmes at oracle.com <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>
>>>>        <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.__com
>>>> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>             Hi Thomas,
>>>> 
>>>>             On 8/12/2014 8:27 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>                 Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>                 I do not really like the handling of the leading pipe
>>>> symbol:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>             To be fair to Yasumasa this aspect of the fix has been
>>>> the same
>>>>             since Oct 15:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~____ysuenaga/JDK-8059586/webrev.____02/
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~__ysuenaga/JDK-8059586/webrev.__02/>
>>>> 
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~__ysuenaga/JDK-8059586/webrev.__02/
>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8059586/webrev.02/>>
>>>> 
>>>>             and was not flagged.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>        You are right, I did not read those mails close enough.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>                 So, we read the core_pattern, and if the pipe symbol
>>>> is detected, we
>>>>                 write the core pattern minus the pipe symbol but plus
>>>> a leading
>>>>                 quote to
>>>>                 the output; the leading quote then serves as a info
>>>> to the layer
>>>>                 above
>>>>                 in os_posix.cpp to treat this case specially. This
>>>> means the logic
>>>>                 spills out of the platform dependend os_linux.cpp to
>>>> shared code and
>>>>                 this is also difficult to read.
>>>> 
>>>>                 This comes from the fact that "get_core_path()"
>>>> assumes the core
>>>>                 file is
>>>>                 written to the file system. I think it just does not
>>>> fit
>>>>                 anymore, better
>>>>                 would be to replace it with something like
>>>>                 "os::print_core_file_location(____outputStream* os)",
>>>> and the OS
>>>>                 handles
>>>>                 both core path retrieval and the printing. Because
>>>> then the
>>>>                 shared code
>>>>                 does not need to know whether core file gets printed
>>>>                 traditionally or
>>>>                 piped to a executable or whatever.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>             This sounds like a refactoring that I suggested would be
>>>> too disruptive.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/____pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-____October/015547.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015547.html>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015547.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-October/015547.html>>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/____pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-____October/015557.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015557.html>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015557.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-October/015557.html>>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/____pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-____October/015573.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015573.html>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/__pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-__October/015573.html
>>>> 
>>>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-October/015573.html>>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>        I do not think that this would be such a big a change, but it
>>>> also could
>>>>        be done with another patch.
>>>> 
>>>>        Apart from my reservations I stated above the code looks fine
>>>> and is
>>>>        definitly an improvement (just last week I was helplessly
>>>> looking for a
>>>>        core on a machine where core_pattern turned out to be a
>>>> redirection to
>>>>        another program).
>>>> 
>>>>        Kind Regards, Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>             David
>>>> 



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