RFR: 8324580: Disable THP when thp_pagesize is unknown

Zdenek Zambersky zzambers at openjdk.org
Wed Jan 24 00:40:33 UTC 2024


**Problem:**
When THP is enabled, JDK reads `/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size` file to [detect](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/96607df7f055a80d56ea4c19f3f4fcb32838b1f8/src/hotspot/os/linux/hugepages.cpp#L206) large page size. However this file only [appeared](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/49920d28781dcced10cd30cb9a938e7d045a1c94) in kernel 4.10 and does not exist on kernel old kernels (such as 3.10 used by RHEL-7).

This results in detected large page size of 0B and crash, when `-XX:+UseTransparentHugePages` is used on old kernel.

gdb --args jdk-23+6/bin/java -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -Xmx128m -Xlog:pagesize -version
...
[0.005s][info][pagesize] Static hugepage support:
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   hugepage size: 2M
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   hugepage size: 1G
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   default hugepage size: 2M
[0.005s][info][pagesize] Transparent hugepage (THP) support:
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   THP mode: always
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   THP pagesize: 0B
[0.005s][info][pagesize] Shared memory transparent hugepage (THP) support:
[0.005s][info][pagesize]   Shared memory THP mode: unknown
[0.005s][info][pagesize] JVM will attempt to prevent THPs in thread stacks.
[0.005s][info][pagesize] UseLargePages=1, UseTransparentHugePages=1
[0.005s][info][pagesize] Large page support enabled. Usable page sizes: 4k. Default large page size: 0B.

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff7fc2700 (LWP 31385)]
0x00007ffff68eeb20 in lcm(unsigned long, unsigned long) () from /home/tester/jdk-23+6/lib/server/libjvm.so
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff68eeb20 in lcm(unsigned long, unsigned long) () from /home/tester/jdk-23+6/lib/server/libjvm.so
#1  0x00007ffff64a68f2 in Arguments::apply_ergo() () from /home/tester/jdk-23+6/lib/server/libjvm.so
#2  0x00007ffff700458f in Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs*, bool*) () from /home/tester/jdk-23+6/lib/server/libjvm.so
#3  0x00007ffff6a2373f in JNI_CreateJavaVM () from /home/tester/jdk-23+6/lib/server/libjvm.so
#4  0x00007ffff7fe704b in InitializeJVM (ifn=<synthetic pointer>, penv=0x7ffff7fc1ea8, pvm=0x7ffff7fc1ea0) at src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c:1550
#5  JavaMain (_args=<optimized out>) at src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c:491
#6  0x00007ffff7feb1c9 in ThreadJavaMain (args=<optimized out>) at src/java.base/unix/native/libjli/java_md.c:650
#7  0x00007ffff7bc6ea5 in start_thread (arg=0x7ffff7fc2700) at pthread_create.c:307
#8  0x00007ffff76ebb0d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111

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Commit messages:
 - unknown thp page size fix

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17545/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17545&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8324580
  Stats: 2 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17545.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/17545/head:pull/17545

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17545


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