RFR: 8286212: Cgroup v1 initialization causes NPE on some systems
Severin Gehwolf
sgehwolf at openjdk.java.net
Tue May 10 12:40:42 UTC 2022
Please review this change to the cgroup v1 subsystem which makes it more resilient on some of the stranger systems. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to re-create a similar system as the reporter. The idea of using the longest substring match for the cgroupv1 file paths was based on the fact that on systemd systems processes run in separate scopes and the maven forked test runner might exhibit this property. For that it makes sense to use the common ancestor path. Nothing changes in the common cases where the `cgroup_path` matches `_root` and when the `_root` is `/` (container the former, host system the latter).
In addition, the code paths which are susceptible to throw NPE have been hardened to catch those situations. Should it happen in the future it makes more sense (to me) to not have accurate container detection in favor of continuing to keep running.
Finally, with the added unit-tests a bug was uncovered on the "substring" match case of cgroup paths in hotspot. `p` returned from `strstr` can never point to `_root` as it's used as the "needle" to find in "haystack" `cgroup_path` (not the other way round).
Testing:
- [x] Added unit tests
- [x] GHA
- [x] Container tests on cgroups v1 Linux. Continue to pass
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Commit messages:
- 8286212: Cgroup v1 initialization causes NPE on some systems
Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8629/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=8629&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8286212
Stats: 267 lines in 7 files changed: 256 ins; 0 del; 11 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8629.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/8629/head:pull/8629
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8629
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