RFR 8081219: hs_err improvement: Add event logging for class redefinition to the hs_err file

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Wed Jun 3 20:33:35 UTC 2015


Thank you, Serguei!
Coleen

On 6/3/15 2:16 PM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
> Coleen,
>
>
> The fix is nice, thank you for the update.
> The whole feature is going to be very useful for us!
>
> Thanks,
> Serguei
>
> On 6/3/15 7:03 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Serguei for the comment.  I thought of putting the event 
>> log first but really wanted it to tell which classes were already 
>> redefined.  So I decided to improve the error message for printing 
>> the VM_Operation to include the class being redefined.
>>
>> With the following change, there's a crash during redefinition, the 
>> hs_err_pid file will have:
>>
>> VM_Operation (0x00007f49a294a400): RedefineClasses, mode: safepoint, 
>> requested by thread 0x00007f499
>> 800e800, redefining class RedefineRunningMethods$B
>>
>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8081219.02/
>>
>> Tested manually with a ShouldNotReachHere in various places.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen
>>
>> On 6/2/15 6:18 PM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Coleen,
>>>
>>> The fix looks good.
>>> But I have a question.
>>> Would it be useful to log the beginning of a redefinition as well so 
>>> that it is known what class is currently being redefined?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Serguei
>>>
>>> On 6/2/15 12:58 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>>> Summary: Use the Events::log function to save redefined classes for 
>>>> output to the hs_err file.
>>>>
>>>> This change adds lines to the hs_err_pid file which names classes 
>>>> redefined:
>>>>
>>>> Classes redefined (2 events):
>>>> Event: 11.867 Thread 0x00007fd378199800 redefined class 
>>>> name=RedefineRunningMethods$B, count=1
>>>> Event: 26.746 Thread 0x00007fd378199800 redefined class 
>>>> name=RedefineRunningMethods$B, count=2
>>>>
>>>> Tested with intentional crash to see hs_err_pid files, also tested 
>>>> without intentional crashes vm.redefine.testlist.
>>>>
>>>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8081219/
>>>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8081219
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Coleen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>



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