RFR (M): JDK-8200298 Unify all unix versions of libjsig/jsig.c

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Wed Apr 4 07:59:12 UTC 2018


Hi Magnus,

Sorry for the delay ...

On 28/03/2018 8:15 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 
> On 2018-03-27 18:24, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> Hi Magnus,
>>
>> just a cursory look, will look in greater detail tomorrow.
>>
>> This is good, thanks for doing this.
>>
>> As I wrote offlist, please remove the painfully wrong AIX 
>> "workarounds". I do not know why we did this - the original code is 
>> quite old - my assumption is that dlsym(RTLD_NEXT) was not working as 
>> expected on older AIX versions. Well, it should work now according to 
>> IBMs manpages. Will test later.
> Ok.
>>
>> __thread is not Posix. I would prefer pthread_get/set_specific 
>> instead, which is more portable.
> 
> I have surrounded this code with #ifdef MACOSX now.
> 
> Here is an updated webrev. It includes the changes requested by you and 
> David:
> 
> * No more AIX workarounds
> * Solaris use pthreads
> * The "reentry" code is #ifdef MACOSX.

That all seems good.

> I also assumed that NSIG is available and working on Solaris. I'll let 
> David decide if he is happy with that. The alternative is to go back to 
> the Solaris-specific code that allocates sact on the heap.

Unfortunately NSIG is a problem on Solaris:

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=741

It's use also precludes the use of the real-time signals - which limits 
Linux as well. But I'm not completely clear on exactly how signals may 
be numbered in their entirety so I wouldn't necessarily suggest trying 
to use SIGRTMAX+1 as the number of available signals, other than on Solaris.

Thanks,
David

> Webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.05
> 
> Once again, here is also a webrev that shows the difference between the 
> original files and the new, unified file. Even if it's hard to read, it 
> shows what the effects will be for each platform.
> 
> Webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.04/
> 
> /Magnus
> 
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie 
>> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com <mailto:magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     When I was about to update jsig.c, I noticed that the four copies
>>     for aix, linux, macosx and solaris were basically the same, with
>>     only small differences. Some of the differences were not even well
>>     motivated, but were likely the result of this code duplication
>>     causing the code to diverge.
>>
>>     A better solution is to unify them all into a single unix version,
>>     with the few platform-specific changes handled on a per-platform
>>     basis.
>>
>>     I've made the following notable changes:
>>
>>     * I have removed the version check for Solaris. All other
>>     platforms seem to do fine without it, and in general, we don't
>>     mistrust other JDK libraries. An alternative is to add this
>>     version check to all other platforms instead. If you think this is
>>     the correct course of action, let me know and I'll fix it.
>>
>>     * Solaris used to have a dynamically allocated sact, instead of a
>>     statically allocated array as all other platforms have. It's not
>>     likely to be large, and the size is known at compile time, so
>>     there seems to be no good reason for this.
>>
>>     * Linux and macosx used a uint32_t/uint64_t instead of sigset_t
>>     for jvmsigs, as aix and solaris do. This is a less robust
>>     solution, and the added checks show that it has failed in the
>>     past. Now all platforms use sigset_t/sigismember().
>>
>>     Also worth noting:
>>
>>     * Solaris is not using pthreads, but it's own thread library,
>>     which accounts for most of the #ifdef SOLARIS.
>>
>>     * In general, if an implementation was needed on one platform, but
>>     has no effect or is harmless on others, I've kept it on all
>>     platforms instead of sprinkling the code with #ifdefs.
>>
>>     To facilitate code review, here is a specially crafted webrev that
>>     shows the differences compared to each of the individual, original
>>     per-OS versions of jsig.c:
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.01
>>     
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.01>
>>
>>     Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200298
>>     <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200298>
>>     WebRev:
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.03
>>     
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eihse/JDK-8200298-unify-libjsig/webrev.03>
>>
>>     /Magnus
>>
>>
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