RFR: 8189170: Add option to disable stack overflow checking in primordial thread for use with JNI_CreateJavaJVM

Daniel D. Daugherty daniel.daugherty at oracle.com
Mon Nov 20 13:05:27 UTC 2017


I'm also good with this change.

Dan


On 11/20/17 4:04 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> looks fine.
>
> Thanks, Thomas
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:44 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com 
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dan,
>
>     Thanks for the review. I've addressed all of yours and Thomas's
>     comments.
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8189170/webrev.v2/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edholmes/8189170/webrev.v2/>
>
>     The main change is:
>
>     +   static bool is_primordial_thread(void)
>     + #if defined(_WINDOWS) || defined(BSD)
>     +     // No way to identify the primordial thread.
>     +     { return false; }
>     + #else
>     +   ;
>     + #endif
>
>
>     Also to clarify this is logically a "product" flag for the systems
>     that need it, not a diagnostic one. But as we don't want this flag
>     to be in common use and it is of such narrow applicability, we
>     have made it experimental. This was discussed previously in the
>     CSR review thread for this:
>
>     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2017-October/024859.html
>     <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2017-October/024859.html>
>
>     Once Tomas K. has been able to test this, and you and Thomas
>     sign-off on the updates, I'll get this pushed. But as I'm away
>     from Thursday it may not be until next week.
>
>     Thanks,
>     David
>     -----
>
>
>
>     On 18/11/2017 1:40 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>
>         On 11/14/17 5:39 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>
>             Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189170
>             <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189170>
>
>             webrev:
>             http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8189170/webrev/
>             <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edholmes/8189170/webrev/>
>
>
>         src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.cpp
>              No comments.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/aix/os_aix.hpp
>              No comments.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/bsd/os_bsd.cpp
>              L880: // thread in any special way - so just report 'false'
>                  Nit - needs a period after 'false' to make it a sentence.
>
>              L882:     return false;
>                  Nit - indent should be 2 spaces.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/bsd/os_bsd.hpp
>              No comments.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp
>              L947:   if (stack_size >= (size_t)(3 * page_size()))
>                  Nit - needs '{' and '}' on the if-statement body.
>
>              L3070: // always place it right after end of the mapped
>         region
>                  Nit - needs a period after 'region' to make it a
>         sentence.
>                  (Not your problem, but you did update the sentence...)
>
>         src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.hpp
>              No comments.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/solaris/os_solaris.cpp
>              No comments other than I learned something new about
>         thr_main() :-)
>              Thanks for cleaning up that mess.
>
>         src/hotspot/os/windows/os_windows.cpp
>              L452: // thread in any special way - so just report 'false'
>                  Nit - needs a period after 'false' to make it a sentence.
>
>              L454:     return false;
>                  Nit - indent should be 2 spaces.
>
>         src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/threadLocalAllocBuffer.cpp
>              No comments.
>
>         src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp
>              L1181:   experimental(bool,
>         DisablePrimordialThreadGuardPages, false,
>                  Experimental or diagnostic?
>
>         src/hotspot/share/runtime/os.hpp
>              L450:   // that loads/creates the JVM via JNI_CreateJavaVM
>                  Nit - needs a period after 'JNI_CreateJavaVM'.
>
>              L453:   // launcher nevers uses the primordial thread as
>         the main thread, but
>                  Typo - 'nevers' -> 'never'
>
>              L455:   // have to special-case handling of the
>         primordial thread if it attaches
>                  Typo - 'have to' -> 'have'
>
>         src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.cpp
>              I like the new log message.
>
>         src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.inline.hpp
>              L159:   if (os::uses_stack_guard_pages() &&
>              L160:       !(DisablePrimordialThreadGuardPages &&
>         os::is_primordial_thread())) {
>                  I'm not sure why, but I had to read these two lines
>         several
>                  times before I convinced myself the logic is right.
>
>         I'm good with the code changes. Your call on whether to fix the
>         bits or not.
>
>         Regarding this part of Thomas' review:
>
>                 Or, something like this:
>                 static bool is_primordial_thread(void)
>                 WINDOWS_ONLY({return false;}) BSD_ONLY({return false;})
>
>
>             I can do that. I'll see if anyone else has any comments on
>             this.
>
>
>         I'm assuming that Thomas means for the above to be at the
>         platform independent layer (runtime/os.hpp?) so it is more
>         obvious to the reader that the function doesn't do anything
>         on those two platforms... I know we dislike such things at
>         the platform independent layer, but it does feel appropriate
>         to make this limitation more obvious.
>
>         I would be okay if you made the change that Thomas is suggesting.
>
>         Thumbs up!
>
>         Dan
>
>
>
>
>             There are three parts to this which made it somewhat more
>             complicated than I had envisaged:
>
>             1. Add the flag and disable the guards.
>
>             This is relatively straight-forward:
>
>              void JavaThread::create_stack_guard_pages() {
>                if (!os::uses_stack_guard_pages() ||
>                    _stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused ||
>                    (DisablePrimordialThreadGuardPages &&
>             os::is_primordial_thread())) {
>                    log_info(os, thread)("Stack guard page creation for
>             thread "
>                                         UINTX_FORMAT " disabled",
>             os::current_thread_id());
>                  return;
>
>             with a tweak in JavaThread::stack_guards_enabled as well.
>
>             2. Promote os::XXX::is_initial_thread to
>             os::is_primordial_thread()
>
>             We have three platforms that already implement this
>             functionality: Linux, Solaris and AIX. For BSD/OSX and
>             Windows we don't attempt to do anything different for the
>             primordial thread, and we don't have a way to detect the
>             primordial thread - so is_primordial_thread() just returns
>             false.
>
>             I also tidied up some comments regarding terminology.
>
>             3. Thomas noticed that we unconditionally subtract
>             2*page_size() from the rlimit stack size, without checking
>             it was bigger than 2*page_size() to start with. I was
>             unsure how to tackle this. It's no good leaving stack_size
>             at zero so I opted to ensure we would have at least one
>             page left. Of course in such cases we would hit the bug in
>             libc (if it still exists, which seems unlikely but time
>             consuming to establish).
>
>             Testing:
>               - Tier 1 (JPRT) testing with a modified launcher that
>             uses the primordial thread
>                 - with guard pages enabled
>                 - with guard pages disabled
>               - Tier 1 (JPRT) normal JDK build (which should be
>             unaffected by this change)
>
>             The testing was primarily to ensure that disabling the
>             stack guards on the primordial thread wasn't totally
>             broken. A number of tests fail:
>             - setting -Xss32m fails for the primordial thread when
>             guards are enabled and the rlimit is 8m
>             - tests that would hit StackOverflowError crash the VM
>             when guards are disabled (as you would expect).
>             - runtime/execstack/Testexecstack.java crashes when the
>             guards are disabled
>
>             Thanks,
>             David
>
>
>



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