RFR: 8062537: [TESTBUG] Conflicting GC combinations in hotspot tests

Dmitry Fazunenko Dmitry.Fazunenko at oracle.com
Tue Nov 4 11:32:48 UTC 2014


Nice plan! Please feel free to send me any feedback/questions regarding 
@requires

Thanks,
Dima


On 04.11.2014 11:40, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi Dima,
>
> Thanks for the answers. I think the currently proposed patch is a good 
> start. We will have to evolve the @requires tag in the future, but 
> let's have that discussion separate from this review. And we can start 
> that discussion later when we have more experience with the current 
> version of @requires.
>
> Thanks for doing this!
> Bengt
>
>
>
> On 11/3/14 10:12 PM, Dmitry Fazunenko wrote:
>> Hi Bengt,
>>
>> That's great that we have very closed visions!
>>
>> The general comment: currently, jtreg doesn't support any sort of 
>> plugins, so you can't provide a VM specific handler of the @requires 
>> or another tag. This is very annoying limitation and we have to live 
>> with it.
>>
>> A few more comments inline.
>>
>>
>> On 03.11.2014 16:31, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Dima,
>>>
>>> Answers inline.
>>>
>>> On 10/31/14 1:56 PM, Dmitry Fazunenko wrote:
>>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback, we appreciate it very much!
>>>>
>>>> See comments inline.
>>>>
>>>> On 31.10.2014 1:09, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Evgeniya,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/30/14 3:05 PM, Evgeniya Stepanova wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please review changes for 8062537, the OpenJDK/hotspot part of 
>>>>>> the JDK-8019361 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8019361>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062537
>>>>>> fix: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eistepan/8062537/webrev.00/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Problem: Some tests explicitly set GC and fail when jtreg set 
>>>>>> another GC.
>>>>>> Solution: Such tests marked with the jtreg tag "requires" to skip 
>>>>>> test if there is a conflict
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for fixing this! It is really great that we finally start 
>>>>> sorting this out.
>>>>>
>>>>> First a general comment. The @requires tag has been developed 
>>>>> without much cooperation with the GC team. We did have a lot of 
>>>>> feedback when it was first presented a year ago, but it does not 
>>>>> seem like this feedback was incorporated into the @requires that 
>>>>> was eventually built.
>>>>
>>>> We tried to implement as much developer's wishes as possible. But 
>>>> not everything is possible, sorry for that.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm sure you have done your best. It's just that we have been 
>>> requesting this feature for 3 years and I was expecting us to be 
>>> able to influence the feature much more than was the case now.
>>
>> My personal hope: @requires will address ~90% of existing issues.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this change that gets proposed now is a big step forward 
>>>>> and I won't object to it. But I am pretty convinced that we will 
>>>>> soon run in to the limitations of the current @requires 
>>>>> implementation and we will have to redo this work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of the points I don't really like about the @requires tag are:
>>>>>
>>>>> - the "vm.gc" abstraction is more limiting than helping. It would 
>>>>> have been better to just "require" any command line flag.
>>>> "vm.gc" is an alias to a very popular flag. It's also possible to use:
>>>> vm.opt.UseG1GC == true instead.
>>>>
>>>> The table with all vars available in jtreg:
>>>> http://jre.us.oracle.com/java/re/jtreg/4.1/promoted/latest/binaries/jtreg/doc/jtreg/tag-spec.html#requires_names
>>>
>>> The problem with having this matching built in to JTreg is that it 
>>> makes it very hard to change. When we discussed this a year ago I 
>>> think we said that JTreg should only provide a means to test against 
>>> the command line and a hook for running some java code in the 
>>> @requires tag. That way we could put logic like this in a test 
>>> library that is under our control. This would make it easy for us to 
>>> change and also enables us to use different logic for different 
>>> versions.
>>
>> I would be glad to have own harness...
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - the requirement should be per @run tag. Right now we have to do 
>>>>> what you did in this change and use vm.gc=null even when some 
>>>>> tests could actually have been run when a GC was specified.
>>>> it would be great, but it will unlikely happen in jtreg, as well as 
>>>> test case support.
>>>
>>> what do you mean with test case support? Hi Evgeniya,
>>
>> Under test case support I mean ability to treat each @run as a 
>> separate test. Now
>>
>> @test
>> @run -XX:g1RegSize=1m MyTest
>> @run -XX:g1RegSize=2m MyTest
>> @run -XX:g1RegSize=4m MyTest
>> class MyTest {
>> }
>>
>> is always a single test. You can't exclude, or re-run a part of it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> - there are many tests that require more than just a specific GC. 
>>>>> Often there are other flags that can't be changed either for the 
>>>>> test to work properly.
>>>>
>>>> yes. conflicting GC is just the most popular problem caused by 
>>>> conflicting options.
>>>> If we address this issue and we are satisfied with solution, we 
>>>> could move further.
>>>
>>> Yes, I agree that taking one step at the time is good. Personally I 
>>> would have preferred that the first step was a "just run the command 
>>> line as specified in the @run tag" step.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this is not the right place to discuss the current 
>>>>> implementation of the @requires tag. I just want to say that I'm 
>>>>> not too happy about how the @requires tag turned out. But assuming 
>>>>> we have to use it the way it is now I guess the proposed changeset 
>>>>> looks good.
>>>>
>>>> yes, this thread is about change made by Evgeniya, not about jtreg :)
>>>> And thanks for reviewing it!
>>>
>>> Agreed. And as I said, I think the patch looks ok. I have not looked 
>>> at all tests. But if they now pass with the combinations that we 
>>> test with I guess they should be ok.
>>
>> Excellent! Thanks a lot!
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tested locally with different GC flags (-XX:+UseG1GC, 
>>>>>> -XX:+UseParallelGC, -XX:+UseSerialGC, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweep and 
>>>>>> without any GC flag). Tests are being excluded as expected. No 
>>>>>> tests failed because of the conflict.
>>>>> Have you tested with -Xconcgc too? It's an alias for 
>>>>> -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC.
>>>>
>>>> '-Xconcgc' is not supported yet. (bug in jtreg, I will submit)
>>>
>>> Ok. Thanks.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think some of the test, like 
>>>>> test/gc/startup_warnings/TestDefNewCMS.java, will fail if you run 
>>>>> with -XX:+UseParNewGC. Others, like 
>>>>> test/gc/startup_warnings/TestParNewCMS.java, will fail if you run 
>>>>> with -XX:-UseParNewGC. Could you test these two cases too?
>>>>
>>>> These two tests ignore vm flags.
>>>> Add @requires here is not necessary, but it will allow not execute 
>>>> the tests when not needed.
>>>> So, if we run HS tests with 4 GC, we don't need to run these tests 
>>>> 4 times, 1 should be enough.
>>>
>>> Do we really want to use the @requires functionality for this 
>>> purpose? It seems like a way of misusing @requires. If we just want 
>>> the tests to be run once I think Leonid's approach with tests lists 
>>> seems more suitable.
>>
>> No, it's not a purpose of course, it's just side effect :)
>>
>>
>>> But are you sure that this is the reason for the @requires in this 
>>> case? TestDefNewCMS does sound like a test that is DefNew specific. 
>>> I don't see a reason to run it with ParNew. If it doesn't fail today 
>>> it should probably be changed so that it does fail if it is run with 
>>> the wrong GC.
>>
>> @requires - is not the silver bullet, but it's quite easy way to 
>> solve a lot of issues.
>>
>> I hope, @requires will allow to reduce the number of "selfish" tests, 
>> which produce a new java process to ignore vm flags coming from 
>> outside. No @requires, no other mechanism could 100% protect a test 
>> from running with conflicting options, but this is not the goal.
>>
>> If one runs tests with an exotic option, like a new G2 collector, 
>> there shouldn't mass failures caused by options conflicts. But a few 
>> failures could be handled manually.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Similarly it looks to me like there are tests that will fail if 
>>>>> you run them with -XX:-UseParallelOldGC or -XX:+UseParallelOldGC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a heads up. These two tests will soon be removed. I'm about 
>>>>> to push a changeset that removes them:
>>>>>
>>>>> test/gc/startup_warnings/TestCMSIncrementalMode.java
>>>>> test/gc/startup_warnings/TestCMSNoIncrementalMode.java
>>>> okay, thank for letting us know.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some way of making sure that all tests are run at one 
>>>>> time or another. With this change there is a risk that some tests 
>>>>> are never run and always skipped. Will we somehow be tracking what 
>>>>> gets skipped and make sure that all tests are at least run once 
>>>>> with the correct GC so that it is not skipped all the time?
>>>>
>>>> This is a very good question!
>>>> jtreg now doesn't report skipped tests, hopefully it will do soon, 
>>>> after getting fix of:
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7900934
>>>>
>>>> And yes, tracking tests which are not run is important thing.
>>>> @requires - is not the only to exclude test from execution.
>>>>
>>>> Other examples:
>>>>
>>>> /*
>>>>   *@ignore
>>>>   *@test
>>>>   */
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> /*@bug 4445555
>>>>   *@test
>>>>   */
>>>> ...
>>>> Such tests will never be run, because jtreg treats as test only 
>>>> files with @test on the first place...
>>>>
>>>> So,  making sure that tests do not disappear is important SQE task, 
>>>> we know about that, we're thinking on solution (may be very 
>>>> actively).  But this subject for another discussion, not within RFR :)
>>>
>>> Right. Glad to hear that you are actively working on this!
>>
>> I was going to say "not very actively", but never mind, we know about 
>> this problem. With introducing @requires mechanism it will become 
>> more important!
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your comments!
>>
>> -- Dima
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Bengt
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dima
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Bengt
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Evgeniya Stepanova
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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