RFR: 8225035: Thread stack size issue caused by large TLS size

Jiangli Zhou jianglizhou at google.com
Mon Jul 1 22:33:22 UTC 2019


Hi David,

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 1:22 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jiangli,
>
> On 29/06/2019 9:42 am, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Thanks for the detailed comments! Here is the latest webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiangli/8225035/webrev.04/. Apologizing
> > for not including an incremental webrev (realized that when I almost
> > done edits).
>
> That all looks fine - thanks for making the changes.
>
> However ... now that I see the logging output it occurred to me that
> checking for the TLS adjustment is something that should only happen
> once and we should be storing the adjustment amount in a static for
> direct use. Sorry I didn't think about this earlier. Something like:

No problem at all! I actually thought in the same direction as well
when making the change initially but didn't go with it as I had some
concerns. Florian's latest reply is reassuring (thanks again!). So
here is the update:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiangli/8225035/webrev_inc.05/.

Since we are settling down on the approach and final implementation
details, it would be a good idea to get the CSR ball rolling. Could
you please review and I'll finalize the CSR. Thanks!

Best regards,
Jiangli

>
> static size_t tls_size = 0;
> static bool tls_size_inited = false;
>
> static size_t get_static_tls_area_size(const pthread_attr_t *attr) {
> +  if (!tls_size_inited) {
> +    tls_size_inited = true;
>       if (_get_minstack_func != NULL) {
>         size_t minstack_size = _get_minstack_func(attr);
>         ...
>         if (minstack_size > (size_t)os::vm_page_size() +
> PTHREAD_STACK_MIN) {
>           tls_size = minstack_size - os::vm_page_size() - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN;
>         }
>      }
> + }
>    log_info(os, thread)("Stack size adjustment for TLS is " SIZE_FORMAT,
>                         tls_size);
>    return tls_size;
> }
>
> Or even fold it all into get_minstack_init() ?
>
> I'm assuming that the result of __pthread_get_minstack wont' change over
> time of course.
>
> Thanks,
> David
> -----
>
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:57 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Jiangli,
> >>
> >> This is very well written up - thanks.
> >>
> >> I apologize in advance that I'm about to traveling for a few days so
> >> won't be able to respond further until next week.
> >
> > Hope you have a relaxed and safe travel. This can wait.
> >
> >>
> >> On 27/06/2019 11:58 pm, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> >>> Updated webrev:
> >>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiangli/8225035/webrev.03/
> >>
> >> Overall changes look good. I also have a concern around this code:
> >>
> >> +     tls_size = minstack_size - os::vm_page_size() - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN;
> >> +     assert(tls_size > 0, "unexpected size");
> >>
> >> In addition to Thomas's comments re-signedness, can't the result == 0 if
> >> there is no sttaic TLS in use? Or is there always some static TLS in use?
> >
> > On both glibc 2.24 and 2.28, by default I see there is one page memory
> > for static TLS, without explicitly defining any __thread variables in
> > user code.
> >
> >>
> >> A few other comments/requests:
> >>
> >>    822 static void get_minstack_init() {
> >>    823   _get_minstack_func =
> >>    824         (GetMinStack)dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "__pthread_get_minstack");
> >>    825 }
> >>
> >> Can you add a logging statement please:
> >>
> >> log(os, thread)("Lookup of __pthread_get_minstack %s",
> >>                   _get_minstack_func == NULL ? "failed" : "succeeded");
> >
> > Added log info.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>    884   // In the Linux NPTL pthread implementation the guard size mechanism
> >>
> >> Now that we have additional information on this could you update this
> >> old comment to say
> >>
> >> // In glibc versions prior to 2.7 the guard size mechanism
> >
> > Done.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>    897     // Adjust the stack_size by adding the on-stack TLS size if
> >>    898     // AdjustStackSizeForTLS is true. The guard size is already
> >>    899     // accounted in this case, please see comments in
> >>    900     // get_static_tls_area_size().
> >>
> >> Given the extensive commentary in get_static_tls_area_size() can we be
> >> more brief here and just say:
> >>
> >> // Adjust the stack size for on-stack TLS - see get_static_tls_area_size().
> >
> > Done.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> 5193   get_minstack_init();
> >>
> >> Can you make this conditional on AdjustStackSizeForTLS please so there
> >> is no affect when not using the flag - thanks.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> 855   }
> >> 856   return tls_size;
> >>
> >> Can you insert a logging statement:
> >>
> >> log(os, thread)("Stack size adjustment for TLS is " SIZE_T_FORMAT,
> >> tls_size);
> >
> > Added.
> >
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/TLS/T.java
> >>
> >> 37             // Starting a ProcessBuilder causes the process reaper
> >> thread being
> >>
> >> s/being/to be/
> >
> > Fixed.
> >
> >>
> >>    43             // failure mode the VM fails to create thread with
> >> error message
> >>
> >> s/create thread/create a thread/
> >
> > Fixed.
> >
> >>
> >>     53                 System.out.println("Unexpected Echo output: " +
> >> echoOutput +
> >>     54                                    ", expects: " + echoInput);
> >>
> >> should this be an exception so that test fails? I can't imagine how echo
> >> would fail but probably better to fail the test if something unexpected
> >> happens.
> >
> > If no expected output is obtained from echo (due to ProcessBuilder
> > failure caused by TLS issue), the test does fail and reports to the
> > caller (returns false). If we throw an explicit expectation, it will
> > be caught by the outer try/catch, which seems to be unnecessary.
> >
> >>
> >> 66         try {
> >>     67             br = new BufferedReader(new
> >> InputStreamReader(inputStream));
> >>     68             s = br.readLine();
> >>     69         } finally {
> >>     70             br.close();
> >>     71         }
> >>
> >> This could use try-with-resources for both streams.
> >
> > Sounds good. Done.
> >
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> exestack-tls.c
> >>
> >> It's simpler if no argument means no-tls and an argument means tls.
> >>
> >>     42     char classpath[4096];
> >>     43     snprintf(classpath, sizeof classpath,
> >>     44              "-Djava.class.path=%s", getenv("CLASSPATH"));
> >>     45     options[0].optionString = classpath;
> >>
> >> Do we need to explicitly set the classpath? I'm concerned that our test
> >> environment uses really, really long paths and a number of them.
> >> (Probably not 4096 but still ...)
> >
> > The classpath needs to be set so we know where to load the test class.
> > Given that we use 4096 for the same type of usage in other existing
> > test(s) (for example StackGap), it probably is okay for our test
> > environments? I can increase the array size if we want to be extra
> > safe ...
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/TLS/testtls.sh
> >>
> >>     40 if [ "${VM_OS}" != "linux" ]
> >>     41 then
> >>     42   echo "Test is only valid for Linux"
> >>     43   exit 0
> >>     44 fi
> >>
> >> This should be done via "@requires os.family != Linux"
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jiangli
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> David
> >> -----
> >>
> >>> Thanks for everyone's contribution on carving out the current workaround!
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Jiangli
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:42 AM Jiangli Zhou <jianglizhou at google.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you Thomas and David! Glad to see that we are converging on an
> >>>> acceptable approach here. I'll try to factor in all the latest inputs
> >>>> from everyone and send out a new update.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks and best regards,
> >>>> Jiangli
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:13 AM David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Trimming ....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 27/06/2019 12:35 pm, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:23 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> I think you can handle the guard size in this way:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>      pthread_attr_setguardsize(&attr, guard_size);
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>      size_t stack_adjust_size = 0;
> >>>>>>>      if (AdjustStackSizeForTLS) {
> >>>>>>>        size_t minstack_size = get_minstack(&attr);
> >>>>>>>        size_t tls_size = minstack_size - vm_page_size() - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN;
> >>>>>>>        // In glibc before 2.27, tls_size still includes guard_size.
> >>>>>>>        // In glibc 2.27 and later, guard_size is automatically
> >>>>>>>        // added to the stack size by pthread_create.
> >>>>>>>        // In both cases, the guard size is taken into account.
> >>>>>>>        stack_adjust_size += tls_size;
> >>>>>>>      } else {
> >>>>>>>        stack_adjust_size += guard_size;
> >>>>>>>      }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is the vm_page_size() counted for the dl_pagesize? As long as others
> >>>>>> are okay with the above suggested adjustment, it looks good to me.
> >>>>>> Thomas, David and others, any objection?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I find the above acceptable. I've been waiting for the dust to settle.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> David
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks and best regards,
> >>>>>> Jiangli
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>>>> Florian


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