RFR(M): 8038201: Clean up misleading usage of malloc() in init_system_properties_values()

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Goetz,

os_aix.cpp: 565

It might be better to allocate one buffer that satisfy all three
sprintf() calls at ll. 556 and free it at ll. 574

os_bsd.cpp: 350

   I would prefer to have the single #ifdef __APPLE__ block, it makes
code much more readable.

os_bsd.cpp: 485

 you replace malloc to on-stack allocation of more than 4096 bytes. I
think this allocation should be done through NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY.
  see also comments to os_aix above - you can allocate large enough
buffer once and than reuse it.

os_linux.cpp: 434

the same comments as above.

os_solaris.cpp: 728

   As soon as you doing cleanup, I would love to have this code changed
a bit. It comes from solaris man page long time ago and doesn't respect
hotspot convention of using underscore to indicate class global variables.

Could you change it to something like:

Dl_serinfo     info_sz, *info;

if (dlinfo(RTLD_SELF, RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE, (void *)&info_sz) == -1) {
...

info = (Dl_serinfo*)NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, info_sz.dls_size, mtInternal);
...

os_solaris.cpp: 829
   The same comment about on-stack allocation as for os_bsd.cpp

-Dmitry

On 2014-03-25 01:50, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please review and test this change. I please need a sponsor.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/8038201-sec/webrev.00/
> 
> This change addresses the implementation of init_system_properties_values
> on aix, linux, solaris and bsd.
> In init_system_properties_values a macro was defined mapping malloc to
> NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY. NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY checks for successful allocation
> or exits the VM.  The code of this method handles the allocated pointers as
> allocated with real malloc, i.e.,  there were checks for NULL and calls to free().
> 
> This change replaces the macro malloc with NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY and removes
> the unnecessary checks making the code clearer.  Also, it uses a local array where
> possible.
> 
> The allocated memory is passed to calls that end up at SystemProperty::set_value().
> set_value copies the strings passed.  Thus the memory allocated in
> init_system_properties_values must be freed after these calls.  Most of these
> frees were missing.
> 
> This change adds the missing frees.
> 
> Testing this change I ran into a warning in ppc code which I fixed, too.
> I did some local test.  I'll get broader tests by Wednesday.
> 
> Best regards,
>   Goetz.
> 
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
* I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.