[lworld] RFR: 8367151: [lworld] CorrectlyRestoreRfp.java triggers "bad oop found" during deoptimization

Marc Chevalier mchevalier at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 20 12:24:41 UTC 2025


We are on aarch64.

When a function needs stack extension, we build a stack that has this shape:

https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/b1d14c658511cced2a860d9e2741ae89827e25ba/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/macroAssembler_aarch64.cpp#L6040-L6073

Currently, when leaving the frame, we use LR §1 (I use § not to mess with github rendering that interpret `#` as PR references) as return address (because it can be patched for deoptimization), and FP §2 to restore x29 (because when it contains an oop, the GC is only aware of this copy).

In our failing case, we have a C2-compiled frame that is being deoptimized when returning from a call to an interpreted method. During deoptimization, the function `frame::sender_for_compiled_frame(RegisterMap*) const` is used to locate the location on the stack where rfp (x29) is saved.

https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/b1d14c658511cced2a860d9e2741ae89827e25ba/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/frame_aarch64.inline.hpp#L446

Actually this function is a bit more general: it computes the sender frame of a compiled frame, and build the `RegisterMap`. The problem is that during deoptimization, this function locates the wrong save of rfp (FP §1) because the C2 frame is being modified by the deoptimization process and it's not anymore recognized as a C2-compiled method that needs stack repairs. In this modified frame the sender's sp is correctly known (or the deoptimization mechanism would not work), and the saved FP is taken just 2 words above: that is FP §1. On top of that, if rfp contained an oop and the GC moved the pointed object during the call we are returning from, the value we get for rfp is not valid anymore.

The good and bad news is that the GC also locates the saved location of rfp thanks to the same function. The bad news is that GC sees the C2 frame correctly, and so `sender_for_compiled_frame` can locate FP §2. We can follow a few ideas:
- make the deoptimized frame bottom under FP/LR §2. This is not possible, for many reasons: we need LR §1, we need to remove the whole frame to find the sender's frame...
- make `sender_for_compiled_frame` detects when the deoptimized frame is the one of a C2 compiled method that needs stack repair. No idea how to do that! Also, it seems brittle, and more complicated than the next solution.
- always pick FP §1: since the deoptimized frame will pick FP §1, in case it's a regular C2 frame, we can also make sure to use FP §1. It is the simplest solution and the one I explain after.

In [JDK-8365996](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8365996), the problem was pretty much the opposite: remove_frame was using FP §1 to restore rfp but the GC only updates FP §2. So the solution was to restore from FP §2:

https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1540/files#diff-0f4150a9c607ccd590bf256daa800c0276144682a92bc6bdced5e8bc1bb81f3aR6140-R6145

Here the solution is to revert this part (restore rfp from FP §1), and let GC knows about FP §1 only in `sender_for_compiled_frame`. Overall, let's never speak about FP/LR §2. This way, we always have the sender's sp, the saved LR and FP consecutively. FP/LR §2 is only needed to make space between the unpacked arguments and the locals, as there would be between regular arguments and locals. They could have a fictive value and we should probably implement that.

This make virtual thread tests fail massively. Surely because of mismatch between our choice of FP §1 or 2. Let's problem list this for now... To help with that, I introduced `frame::compiled_frame_details() const` to do all this little tricks and return the location of LR/FP§1 and the sender's sp at once, without letting the frame users have to figure out the internal structure.

I found the extraction of `compiled_frame_details` a bit risky, so I proceded in steps: first making the function, calling it from `sender_for_compiled_frame` and compare the results with the old way of getting everything. These temporary assert weren't triggered, so I actually used the returned value of `compiled_frame_details` and removed the newly useless code from `sender_for_compiled_frame`. So I'm rather confident it does as good as before.

I don't have much opinion about the names of `compiled_frame_details` and `CompiledFramePointers`, feel free to suggest better if you have a better idea.

Thanks,
Marc

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Commit messages:
 - Actually use compiled_frame_details
 - ProblemList and comment
 - Factor compiled frame pointers computation
 - First fix

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1751/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=1751&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8367151
  Stats: 99 lines in 5 files changed: 60 ins; 28 del; 11 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1751.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/1751/head:pull/1751

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1751


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