RFR: 8256732: Zero: broken +ZeroTLAB exposes badly initialized memory [v3]
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.java.net
Mon Nov 23 19:21:10 UTC 2020
> Looks like memory is badly initialized when `-XX:+ZeroTLAB` is specified.
>
> Manifests like this:
>
> $ CONF=linux-x86_64-zero-fastdebug make exploded-test TEST=compiler/memoryinitialization/ZeroTLABTest.java
>
> command: main -Xcomp -XX:+UseTLAB -XX:+ZeroTLAB compiler.memoryinitialization.ZeroTLABTest
> reason: User specified action: run main/othervm -Xcomp -XX:+UseTLAB -XX:+ZeroTLAB compiler.memoryinitialization.ZeroTLABTest
> Mode: othervm [/othervm specified]
> elapsed time (seconds): 0.098
> configuration:
> STDOUT:
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at java.lang.System.getProperty(java.base/System.java:836)
>
> The cause is simple: Zero calls `ThreadLocalAllocBuffer::allocate`:
>
> if (UseTLAB) {
> result = (oop) THREAD->tlab().allocate(obj_size);
> }
>
> ...which actually says:
>
> // Allocate size HeapWords. The memory is NOT initialized to zero.
> inline HeapWord* allocate(size_t size);
> So if we do `+ZeroTLAB`, then Zero skips zeroing the object body, and gets bad uninitialized memory for non-zeroed TLAB. Since `ZeroTLAB` is "false" by default, I believe just doing the object body initialization unconditionally is fine.
Aleksey Shipilev has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains three commits:
- Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8256732-zero-zerotlab-broken
- Maintain the body/header initialization order
- 8256732: Zero: broken +ZeroTLAB exposes badly initialized memory
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1343/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=1343&range=02
Stats: 11 lines in 1 file changed: 3 ins; 1 del; 7 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1343.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/1343/head:pull/1343
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1343
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