<Swing Dev> <AWT Dev> RFR(S): 8156020: 8145547 breaks AIX and and uses RTLD_NOLOAD incorrectly
Phil Race
philip.race at oracle.com
Fri May 6 23:45:19 UTC 2016
On 05/06/2016 04:33 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Thanks for looking at this problem.
>
> On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com
> <mailto:philip.race at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've confirmed that what was pushed was v5 and it should really
> have been v6.
> I can't say unequivocally that it would have built on AIX but
> 1) It does not use RTLD_NOLOAD anywhere
> 2) all calls to dlopen include RTLD_LAZY.
>
> Here is the delta - the patch that makes v5 into v6 and although
> it is not quite the same as yours it bears a striking resemblance
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prr/8156020/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eprr/8156020/>
>
> I don't think this will work correctly on AIX (although it may
> build) because AIX only has a crippled /proc file system. And it won't
> work on any other platform without /proc file system (it is actually
> even less "POSIX" than RTLD_NOLOAD :)
Hmm. In internal discussions /proc was proposed precisely because
it was more widely (may be universally available).
> How can you be sure that isLoadedLib() is really returning false
> because the library is not loaded and not because the corresponding
> file in the proc file system wasn't found?
This is definitely still early days but it was claimed to be more reliable
although we filed a follow-on bug because it did not seem like the kind
of thing we want to do. Even finding something that works reliably on Linux
is not final. It may be that this is something that needs to be tweaked for
each platform port,
>
> JPRT did build your patch (including on our embedded builds), and
> I am doing the same - in progress - for the v5->v6 delta but I
> have a dilemma.
>
> Option 1) Apply the delta of v5 -> v6 to client to get us where we
> should be
> and you "workaround it" in AIX until it makes its way to dev
>
> Option 2) Apply one of these patches to dev and sync it back to client
> and clean up the mess later
> 2a) apply v5->v6
> 2b) apply Volker's patch and fix up the mess of the difference later.
>
> We are taking something of a risk in applying either to dev so I will
> need to do some kind of sanity checking
>
> It is OK for me if we fix this in client first as this seems to be the
> easiest solution process-wise. But are you sure v6 gives you the right
> answers on all you platforms and not just false positives as did the
> v5 version?
Heck no :-). I know there was promising testing but it's early.
I am not sure this has been tried at all on Solaris either.
>
> If you will check in v6 now I can fix it on AIX on Monday if that
> should still give build problems.
>
Well it looks like v6 is about to finish up in JPRT so either is an option.
Your comments about /proc make me more inclined to go with your code.
So now I know more and have compared these how about we do as you
originally proposed. You push it to dev and Monday I will sync it into
client
and we'll take it from there.
> But maybe after the build fixes we should go for a more general
> solution and define platform-specific "isLibLoaded()" functions?
Yes, this is a work-in-progress.
-phil.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
> Opinions ?
>
> -phil.
>
>
> On 05/05/2016 09:32 PM, Philip Race wrote:
>
> Hi Volker,
>
> 1) adding awt-dev. Semyon did the review on swing but really
> it should always
> (and mainly!) have been awt.
>
> 2) Yes, this ought to be pushed to 9-client, specifically not
> 9-dev.
> Assuming it goes to 9-dev we may need to deal with conflicts.
> Also if it causes any kind of problem with 9-dev I would not
> want to pile
> fix on fix, so it would probably just get anti-deltaed. Just a
> warning.
>
> 3) It strictly needs a JPRT run before pushing so someone will
> need to do that.
>
> 4) This change definitely needs two reviewers.
>
> And we were discussing RTLD_NOLOAD is not Posix as that came
> up why it was not
> a solution in a cross-platform solution for determining
> whether libs were
> already loaded but it was reported to not be able to detect
> some cases.
> So I thought we had determined it was not a general solution.
> Leaving aside why it is in there after that (something I will
> need to check),
> the lack of the other flag may explain why it was apparently
> "not working".
>
> So one interesting thing is it appears to me that I thought we
> pushed
> the .v6 webrev - the one I thought we (or I) approved since it
> was the latest
> obviously
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/swing-dev/2016-April/005684.html
>
> but this looks like the v5 webrev was pushed :
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/swing-dev/2016-April/005678.html
>
> All of this "detection" code was the main issue at that juncture.
> So I would like some time to disentangle that before anything
> is changed.
>
> -phil
>
> On 5/4/16, 11:32 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> can somebody please review this small change which fixes
> the AIX build
> after change 8145547, but also fixes an incorrect usage
> pattern of
> RTLD_NOLOAD in 8145547:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2016/8156020/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esimonis/webrevs/2016/8156020/>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156020
>
> Here are the details from the bug report:
>
> Change 8145547 uses the RTLD_NOLOAD flag when calling
> dlopen to probe
> the availability of the GTK libraries.
>
> But unfortunately RTLD_NOLOAD is not Posix and for example not
> available on AIX and BSD.
>
> I also found out, that the implementation of 8145547
> contains a bug.
> It uses RTLD_NOLOAD in an incorrect way. The man page for
> dlopen
> clearly states that one of the two flags RTLD_LAZY or
> RTLD_NOW has to
> be included in the flags. But the current implementation uses
> RTLD_NOLOAD as single flag. Therefor the call to dlopen()
> currently
> always returns NULL, no difference if the corresponding
> library has
> been loaded already or not.
>
> The bug report also contains a small C program which can
> be used to
> reproduce the problem.
>
> The fix is to only use RTLD_NOLOAD if it is defined. The
> change
> removes the 'flags' argument from the various check()
> functions and
> replaces it with a boolean 'load' argument. It indicates
> if the check
> functions should just look for a previously loaded version
> of the GTK
> libraries (i.e. if 'load' == false) or if it should
> additionally try
> to load the libraries if that hasn't been done before
> (i.e. if 'load'
> == true).
>
> I hope I haven't changed the previous program semantics
> with my
> change. At least I couldn't see any difference :)
>
> I've built and smoke tested on Linux/Solaris and AIX with
> various
> combinations for jdk.gtk.version,
> -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel
> and
> FileDialog implementations.
>
> I'd like to push this directly to jdk9-dev to fix the AIX
> build as
> fast as possible. Would that be OK?
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker
>
>
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