RFR: 8254877: GCLogPrecious::_lock rank constrains what locks you are allowed to have when crashing [v5]

Stefan Karlsson stefank at openjdk.java.net
Thu Nov 26 09:29:11 UTC 2020


> This is an alternative version of the fix proposed in 900:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/900
> 
> Erik's description:
>> Today, when you crash, the GCLogPrecious::_lock is taken. This effectively limits you to only get clean crash reports if you crash or assert without holding a lock of rank tty or lower. It is arguably difficult to know what locks you are going to have when crashing. Therefore, I don't think the precious GC log should constrain possible crashing contexts in that fashion.
> 
> As Erik mentioned in that PR, I'd like to retain the ability to easily dump the precious log when debugging. The proposed fix changes the Mutex to a Semaphore, and use trywait to safely access the buffer. In the unlikely event that another thread is holding the lock, the hs_err printer skips printing the log.
> 
> This also makes it possible to call precious logging from within the stack watermark processing code. I think there's a possibility that we might call the following error logging, when we fail to commit memory for a ZPage, when relocating, during stack watermark processing:
> `log_error_p(gc)("Failed to commit memory (%s)", err.to_string());`

Stefan Karlsson has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains six commits:

 - Merge branch 'master' into 8254877_gclogprecious_locks
 - Merge branch '8254877_gclogprecious_locks_rebased' into 8254877_gclogprecious_locks
 - 8254877: GCLogPrecious::_lock rank constrains what locks you are allowed to have when crashing
 - Review 2
 - Review 1
 - 8254877: GCLogPrecious::_lock rank constrains what locks you are allowed to have when crashing

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/903/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=903&range=04
  Stats: 19 lines in 1 file changed: 12 ins; 0 del; 7 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/903.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/903/head:pull/903

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/903



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