RFR: 8003348: SA can not read core file on OS X

Yumin Qi yumin.qi at oracle.com
Wed Mar 6 08:54:15 PST 2013


Thanks, Serguei

   Will take care what you have indicated but refactoring code for 
ps_core.c (Pgrab_core). Maybe in future, code cleaning should include 
this, the better choice I think is regroup code to detail in specific 
platform, such as with new file ps_core_darwin.c etc but not now.

  /Yumin

On 3/5/2013 8:36 PM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
>
> Hi Yumin,
>
>
> A partial review below.
>
> *
> agent/src/os/bsd/MacosxDebuggerLocal.m
> *
>
>   152   listAdd_ID = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, listClass, "add", "(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z");
>   153   CHECK_EXCEPTION;
>   154   getJavaThreadsInfo_ID = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, cls, "getJavaThreadsInfo",
>   155                                                      "()[J");
>   156
>   157   init_libproc(getenv("LIBSAPROC_DEBUG") != NULL);
>
> Is CHECK_EXCEPTION needed after the line #154?
>
> The indent is 3 instead of 2:
>    Lines 360-410, 775-788
>
> ||*agent/src/os/bsd/libproc.h*
>    36 #ifdef __APPLE__
>    . . .
>    46 #ifndef bool
>    47 typedef int bool;
>    48 #define true  1
>    49 #define false 0
>    50 #endif  // bool
>    . . .
>    57 #else   // __APPLE__
>    . . .
>    76 // This C bool type must be int for compatibility with BSD calls and
>    77 // it would be a mistake to equivalence it to C++ bool on many platforms
>    78 typedef int bool;
>    79 #define true  1
>    80 #define false 0
>    81
>    82 #endif // __APPLE__
> The bool, true and false are defined the same way for APPLE and not APPLE.
> Would it make sense to define it just once?
>
> ||*agent/src/os/bsd/ps_core.c*
>
> Need a clean up:
>   869   // thread_command      thrcmd;
>
> Space is missed after "if", wrong indent at line #873:
>   872   if(read(fd, (void *)&fhead, sizeof(mach_header_64)) != sizeof(mach_header_64)) {
>   873      goto err;
> Lines 893, 1087 are too long.
>
> The function read_core_segments() is big and not well readable.
> Would it make sense to consider to separate some of its internals as a 
> local functions.
> For instance, the lines 921-950 are good candidates for it.
>
> The indent is 3:
> 1015         if (exists(filepath)) {
> 1016            strcpy(rpath, filepath);
> 1017            return true;
> 1018         }
> I did not understand the comments, probably, some words are missing:
> 1070   mach_header_64 header;        // used to check if a file header in segment
> . . .
> 1110       // this is the file begining to core file.
>
>
> Not consistent, other fragments before used "goto err;" :
> 1122           return false;   // error
> . . .
> 1133             return false;
>
> Too many ifdef'ed fragments with __APPLE__
> Is it possibler to combine them into bigger chunks or refactor in a 
> different way?
> For instance, the function Pgrab_core() is not readable.
> It'd be better to have two separated versions of the function for 
> apple and not apple.
>
>
> Still to review:
>
> ||*agent/src/os/bsd/symtab.c*
> ||*agent/src/os/bsd/symtab.h*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/BsdVtblAccess.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/HotSpotAgent.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/debugger/bsd/BsdDebuggerLocal.java*
> *agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/debugger/bsd/BsdThread.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/runtime/JavaThread.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/runtime/Threads.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/tools/PStack.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/utilities/PlatformInfo.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/CommandProcessor.java*
> ||*agent/src/share/native/sadis.c*
> ||*make/bsd/makefiles/saproc.make*
>
>
> Thanks,
> Serguei
>
>
> On 3/2/13 11:57 PM, Yumin Qi wrote:
>> Hi, all
>>
>>    Please review at the new changes. Include
>>    1) use unique_thread_id (which is a 64 bit integer on Macosx) to 
>> identify thread. Add a function in BsdDebuggerLocal to call the newly 
>> added function BsdThread.getUniqueThreadId to get this id. Meanwhile, 
>> move the code of forming threadList in native part to 
>> BsdDebuggerLocal.java since the thread ids of all java threads can be 
>> obtained from Threads and coding is much easier and clear.
>>
>>     2) To have better performance, get all java thread ids, stack 
>> infos (stack begin, stack end) into one array of long which is 
>> decoded in native code and used to set thread ids. This save much 
>> more time first time to fill java thread ids.
>>
>>     3) remove DarwinVtblAccess.java which added in last version , its 
>> functionality moved to BsdVtblAccess.java
>>
>>    4) BugSpotAgent.java no long exists, remove the changes.
>>
>>     5) remove unsupported platform defs.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~minqi/8003348/
>>
>> Thanks
>> Yumin
>>
>> On 1/22/2013 10:35 PM, Yumin Qi wrote:
>>> Hi, Staffan (and Serguei)
>>>
>>>   Made some clean for code.
>>>   1) added mach-o file fat header parsing as you suggested.
>>>   2) modified get_real_path as you indicated it could run with 
>>> jre/bin/java
>>>   3) moved output information from CommandProcessor.java to 
>>> PStack.java for printing  out  pstack not available for Darwin.
>>>   4) code clean, file header update.
>>>
>>> Please take a look at same location.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Yumin
>>>
>>> On 1/18/2013 3:58 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>>>> Thanks for doing this Yumin!
>>>>
>>>> I tried to apply you patch and run it, but I can't get SA to open a 
>>>> core file. You can see the exception I get below. Is there some 
>>>> kind of setup I need to do? This is against a jvmg build of Hotspot.
>>>>
>>>> I also noticed that you forgot to update BugSpotAgent.java with the 
>>>> same changes as in HotspotAgent.java. This makes the jstack tool fail.
>>>>
>>>> I will look at the changes more closely.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> /Staffan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Opening core file, please wait...
>>>> Unable to open core file
>>>> /cores/core.79028:
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't appear to be a HotSpot VM (could not find symbol 
>>>> "gHotSpotVMTypes" in
>>>> remote process)
>>>> sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.DebuggerException: Doesn't appear to be a 
>>>> HotSpot VM (could not find symbol "gHotSpotVMTypes" in remote process)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotAgent.setupVM(HotSpotAgent.java:385)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotAgent.go(HotSpotAgent.java:287)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotAgent.attach(HotSpotAgent.java:146)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.CLHSDB.attachDebugger(CLHSDB.java:188)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.CLHSDB.run(CLHSDB.java:55)
>>>>     at sun.jvm.hotspot.CLHSDB.main(CLHSDB.java:35)
>>>> hsdb>  Input stream closed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17 jan 2013, at 22:23, Yumin Qi<yumin.qi at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>     Please review for the changes for SA to read core file on Mac 
>>>>> OS X, this is feature is not implemented on previous releases.
>>>>>     This change made for SA to work on core file on Darwin, but 
>>>>> still some function not fixed, such as 'pstack'. This is intended 
>>>>> to integrate into 8.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~minqi/8003348/
>>>>>
>>>>>      Please take some time since the code change is a little bigger.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks very much
>>>>> Yumin
>>
>

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