RFR: 8295303: cleanup debug agent's confusing use of EI_GC_FINISH [v3]
Chris Plummer
cjplummer at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 8 02:30:19 UTC 2022
> This PR renamed EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD and does some other minor cleanups related to EI_GC_FINISH.
>
> The debug agent deals with 3 types of events: JVMTI (per the spec), JDWP (per the spec), and an event indexing that the debug agent refers to as EI (Event Index) events. We have the following EI_GC_FINISH event. The indexing is into the array of jdwp event handlers which are created when the debugger sends an EventRequest command.
>
> Note there is no EI_CLASS_UNLOAD event that maps to the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD event, but instead we have:
>
> ` EI_GC_FINISH = 8,`
>
> And these are the mappings between EI_GC_FINISH and JDWP and JVMTI events
>
>
> case JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH:
> return EI_GC_FINISH;
>
> case JDWP_EVENT(CLASS_UNLOAD):
> return EI_GC_FINISH;
>
> index2jvmti[EI_GC_FINISH - EI_min] = JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH;
>
> index2jdwp[EI_GC_FINISH - EI_min] = JDWP_EVENT(CLASS_UNLOAD);
>
>
> So there is this odd relationship between EI_GC_FINISH and the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD event. Note that JVMTI does not have a CLASS_UNLOAD (except for unused support in the extension mechanism), and JDWP has no GC_FINISH event.
>
> This relationship between EI_GC_FINISH and the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD events stems from the fact that at one point JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH was used to trigger the synthesizing all of JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD events for classes that unloaded during the last GC. That is no longer the case, and instead each time a JVMTI OBJECT_FREE event is triggered for a Class instance, the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD is generated.
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> Since JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD maps to EI_GC_FINISH, we have the following:
>
> ` node = getHandlerChain(EI_GC_FINISH)->first;`
>
> By looking at this line of code, you would never guess that this is how you fetch the event handler chain for JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD EventRequests, but it is.
>
> To clean this up I renamed EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD. However, that still leaves the EI_GC_FINISH to JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH mapping to deal with. It's not needed anymore. When we get a JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH, this is all we ever do with it:
>
>
> static void JNICALL
> cbGarbageCollectionFinish(jvmtiEnv *jvmti_env)
> {
> LOG_CB(("cbGarbageCollectionFinish"));
> ++garbageCollected;
> LOG_MISC(("END cbGarbageCollectionFinish"));
> }
>
>
> So the event is not passed around at all, and doesn't trigger other events or mapping to a JDWP event. It is never used as an "event index". This means jvmti2EventIndex should assert if it is ever passed in, since following mapping should never be needed:
>
>
> case JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH:
> return EI_GC_FINISH;
>
>
> This is accomplished by simply deleting the above code, and failing through to the default error handling code.
>
> Also no longer needed is the following entry:
>
> index2jvmti[EI_GC_FINISH -EI_min] = JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH
>
> For this we just assign the entry to 0, which will result in an error if the entry is ever referenced.
Chris Plummer has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains four commits:
- merge
- Fixed ei range check logic errors.
- fix extra whitespace
- Rename EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD and other cleanups related to EI_GC_FINISH
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10887&range=02
Stats: 47 lines in 6 files changed: 18 ins; 3 del; 26 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10887/head:pull/10887
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887
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