SECOND CALL: serviceability agent (SA) fix for VS2010 (6987812)

Daniel D. Daugherty daniel.daugherty at oracle.com
Wed Dec 22 14:46:47 PST 2010


Second Call!

I'm trying to get this fix in before the holiday break.
This should take < 15 minutes unless you try reading the
Microsoft spec.... :-)

Dan



On 12/22/2010 9:05 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> It occurs to me that some folks might want to look at the spec:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx
> http://kishorekumar.net/pecoff_v8.1.htm
>
> The Microsoft link has a click through agreement so I also provided
> a link to a copy of the straight HTML that I found.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 12/21/2010 4:26 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I would like to get a couple of code reviews for my fix to the
>> following JDK7/HSX-20 bug:
>>
>>    6987812 2/3 SAJDI: "gHotSpotVMTypes was not initialized properly in
>>                the remote process"
>>
>> Here is the URL for the webrev:
>>
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dcubed/6987812-webrev/0/
>>
>> Here is an overview of the changes:
>>
>> - Reorder the code in HotSpotTypeDataBase.readVMTypes() to lookup
>>  and decode the 'gHotSpotVMTypes' symbol first. This should help
>>  make any future failures in this area more consistent.
>>
>> - COFFFileParser changes:
>>  - add comments to clarify some of the algorithms
>>  - read 'Base Of Data' field in optional header when PE32
>>    format COFF file is read
>>  - change ExportDirectoryTableImpl to return the 'Export RVA' field
>>    without modification and to return the 'Forwarder RVA' field
>>    after adjusting the address into a file offset
>>
>> - update debugger/win32/coff/DumpExports to include more info about
>>  the section headers and to dump the exported symbol info in a more
>>  understandable order
>>
>> - update debugger/win32/coff/TestParser to more clearly access the
>>  section header using 1-based indices instead of 0-based indices
>>
>> - update the static initializer in debugger/windbg/WindbgDebuggerLocal
>>  to use different library loading logic for dbgeng.dll and dbghelp.dll.
>>  The library pair is searched for in:
>>
>>   - $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin
>>   - dir named by DEBUGGINGTOOLSFORWINDOWS environment variable
>>   - the "Debugging Tools For Windows" program directory
>>   - the "Debugging Tools For Windows (x86)" program directory
>>   - the "Debugging Tools For Windows (x64)" program directory
>>   - the system directory (WINDOWS/system32 is searched last)
>>
>> - the sawwindb.dll is now explicitly loaded from $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin
>>
>> Thanks, in advance, for any reviews.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>


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