RFR (L): 8003868: fix shark for latest HotSpot and LLVM [Was: Re: RFR: Fix shark for latest Hotspot and LLVM]

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Wed Nov 21 14:22:53 PST 2012


On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Roman Kennke <rkennke at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Am Mittwoch, den 21.11.2012, 12:47 -0800 schrieb Christian Thalinger:
>>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Roman Kennke <rkennke at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>> 
>>>>> during the last days I worked on fixing the Shark compiler for Hotspot
>>>>> to get it to build and run again, with the latest Hotspot code and LLVM.
>>>>> Here are some details:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - A lot of changes are just to make it build and the compiler happy. For
>>>>> example, I had to remove a lot of 'const' qualifiers because of API
>>>>> changes in LLVM.
>>>>> - Most other changes have to do with the split of the oop and metadata
>>>>> class hierarchies in Hotspot.
>>>>> - Then there have been a few changes caused by LLVM changes and
>>>>> improvements, most notably the LLVM intrinsics for atomic operations
>>>>> (memory barrier and cmpxchg) have been removed and now have a
>>>>> representation directly in LLVM's IR. This makes our code a little
>>>>> nicer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tested this by running a number of applications, most notably Eclipse
>>>>> (which is notoriously difficult on VMs), Java2Demo, SwingSet2 and a
>>>>> bunch of other stuff.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would like to get this integrated into OpenJDK now if possible. You
>>>>> can find the full webrev here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shark/webrev.00/
>>>> 
>>>> The changes seem to touch almost only shark files so these should be fine.  One question though:
>>>> 
>>>> +  develop(bool, SharkShowCompiledMethods, false,                              \
>>>> 
>>>> Isn't PrintCompilation doing that already?
>>>> 
>>>> The shared code changes look good.  I filed:
>>>> 
>>>> 8003868: fix shark for latest HotSpot and LLVM
>>>> 
>>>> -- Chris
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are also a very minor change required in JDK:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shark/webrev-jdk-00/
>>>>> 
>>>>> In order to build it, apply the patches on hsx/hotspot-comp 's hotspot
>>>>> and jdk repositories respectivly. Find my build script here:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shark/Build8-zero-shark
>>>>> 
>>>>> (Review and adjust variables to your settings, most notably you will
>>>>> need to change LLVM_CONFIG to point to your LLVM 3.1 installation.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please let me know if there are any issues or how we can get this
>>>>> integrated into Hotspot.
>>> 
>>> Finally I installed LLVM on one of our machines to be able to do a Shark build once in a while.  When I try to do a jvmgshark build I get:
>>> 
>>> In file included from /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/PointerLikeTypeTraits.h:18,
>>>                from /usr/local/include/llvm/ADT/PointerIntPair.h:17,
>>>                from /usr/local/include/llvm/Use.h:28,
>>>                from /usr/local/include/llvm/Value.h:17,
>>>                from /usr/local/include/llvm/Argument.h:17,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/shark/llvmHeaders.hpp:39,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/shark/sharkEntry.hpp:29,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/compiler/disassembler.cpp:51:
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/DataTypes.h:53:3: error: #error "Must #define __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS before " "#including Support/DataTypes.h"
>>> 
>>> and:
>>> 
>>> In file included from /usr/local/include/llvm/Attributes.h:18,
>>>                from /usr/local/include/llvm/Argument.h:18,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/shark/llvmHeaders.hpp:39,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/shark/sharkEntry.hpp:29,
>>>                from /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/compiler/disassembler.cpp:51:
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h: In function ‘bool llvm::isInt(int64_t)’:
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h:38: error: there are no arguments to ‘INT64_C’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘INT64_C’ must be available
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h:38: note: (if you use ‘-fpermissive’, G++ will accept your code, but allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h:38: error: there are no arguments to ‘INT64_C’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘INT64_C’ must be available
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h: In function ‘bool llvm::isUInt(uint64_t)’:
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h:64: error: there are no arguments to ‘UINT64_C’ that depend on a template parameter, so a declaration of ‘UINT64_C’ must be available
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h: In function ‘bool llvm::isIntN(unsigned int, int64_t)’:
>>> /usr/local/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h:96: error: ‘INT64_C’ was not declared in this scope
>>> 
>>> Not sure if the latter is because of the former one.  Have you seen this before?
>> 
>> Yes, it's caused by the former. And yes, I have seen it before. IIRC,
>> this happens when certain cflags are not set correctly. The script
>> jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh will call llvm-config to figure out the
>> correct flags. In order for this to work, you need to have the full path
>> to the llvm-config script set in the LLVM_CONFIG env variable. Were you
>> using the build script that I provided?
> 
> No.  I took your script and got the important environment variables.  But I missed the LLVM_* ones.  Usually we only build hotspot so we don't have this jdk script.
> 
> Now that I have the LLVM_* variables it's even worse:
> 
> /home/cthaling/8003868/src/share/vm/oops/oop.hpp:72: error: cast from type ‘markOopDesc* const volatile*’ to type ‘markOopDesc**’ casts away constness
> 
> It's probably this guy:  -Wcast-qual

Got it:

$ java -version
java version "1.8.0-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-ea-b65)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Shark VM (build 25.0-b11-internal-jvmg, mixed mode)

-- Chris

> 
> -- Chris
> 
>> 
>> Roman
>> 
>> 
> 



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