RFR: 8356233: NMT: tty->print_cr should not be used in VirtualMemoryTracker::add_reserved_region()
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Tue May 20 10:21:54 UTC 2025
On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:11:09 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziemski at openjdk.org> wrote:
> To help with debugging NMT we added more info when an assert gets triggered, but we used `tty`, which is involved with locks and unfortunately it triggered:
>
>
> # Internal Error (.../open/src/hotspot/share/runtime/mutex.cpp:457), pid=1088443, tid=1088520
> # assert(false) failed: Attempting to acquire lock tty_lock/tty out of order with lock NmtVirtualMemory_lock/service-4 -- possible deadlock
>
>
> We avoid this, by printing using `UL` instead of using `tty` directly.
Overall conversion looks good. If there is no chance of UL using NMT in a way that leads to VMT then this is fine.
Please fix the tag->unsigned->tag code.
Thanks
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Changes requested by dholmes (Reviewer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25308#pullrequestreview-2853599191
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