RFR: 8263017: Read barriers are missing in nmethod printing code

Vladimir Kozlov kvn at openjdk.java.net
Thu Mar 11 18:04:18 UTC 2021


On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:59:30 GMT, Vladimir Ivanov <vlivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> OOP accesses from nmethod printing code miss read barriers. 
> It causes sporadic crashes when the code stumbles upon a stale OOP.
> 
> When `nmethod::print_nmethod` is invoked, the corresponding nmethod is already installed in the code cache and there was a safepoint check in between (see `ThreadToNativeFromVM` usage in `CompileBroker::invoke_compiler_on_method`).
>  
> The fix adds missing read barriers in `oop_Relocation::oop_value()` and introduces `oop_Relocation::raw_oop_value()` for cases when read barriers aren't needed.
> 
> Along the way, there are some cleanups applied (e.g, `nmethod::print_[oops|metadata]` is superseded by `nmethod::print_recorded_[oops|metadata]`).
> 
> Testing:
> - [x] failing test w/ `-XX:+UseZGC` `-XX:ZCollectionInterval=0.01` `-XX:ZFragmentationLimit=0`
> - [x] hs-tier1 - hs-tier4
> 
> Thanks!

Nice noticing that `print_recorded_oops()` and `print_recorded_metadata()` produces the same output as `print_oops()` and `print_metadata()`. I looked on output recently and was wondering why it printed twice.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2919



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