Request for review (s): 7173959 : Jvm crashed during coherence exabus (tmb) testing
Bengt Rutisson
bengt.rutisson at oracle.com
Wed Dec 12 22:42:06 PST 2012
Hi all,
Could I have a couple of reviews for this change?
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/7173959/webrev.00/
This is for a bug originally reported by the Coherence team:
7173959 : Jvm crashed during coherence exabus (tmb) testing
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7173959
The original analysis and proposed fix was done by Mikael Gerdin and me
together. I'll handle the webrev and push since Mikael is on vacation
starting today. But Mikael did a great job tracking down this very
difficult bug, so he should have a large part of the credit for this bug
fix,
Description from the CR:
The reason that we crash is due to how we re-map memory when we want to
align it for large pages in ReservedSpace::initialize().
Here is what happens:
The reservation of memory is split up to a few steps. When we want a
chunk of memory with large pages we first just reserve some memory large
enough for what we need. Then we realize that we want large pages, so we
want to re-map the reserved memory to use large pages. But since this
requires that we have a large-page-aligned memory chunk we may have to
fix the recently reserved memory chunk up a bit.
We do this in ReservedSpace::initialize() by first releasing the memory
we just reserved. Then requesting more memory than we actually need to
make sure that we have enough space to do manual large page alignment.
After we have gotten this memory we figure out a nicely aligned start
address. We then release the memory again and then reserve just enough
memory but using the aligned start address as a fixed address to make
sure that we get the memory we wanted in an aligned way.
This is done in a loop to make sure that we eventually get some memory.
The interesting code looks like this:
do {
char* extra_base = os::reserve_memory(extra_size, NULL, alignment);
if (extra_base == NULL) return;
// Do manual alignement
base = (char*) align_size_up((uintptr_t) extra_base, alignment);
assert(base >= extra_base, "just checking");
// Re-reserve the region at the aligned base address.
os::release_memory(extra_base,
extra_size); // (1)
base = os::reserve_memory(size,
base); // (2)
} while (base == NULL);
There is a race here between releasing the memory in (1) and
re-reserving it in (2). But the loop is supposed to handle this race.
The problem is that on posix platforms you can remap the same memory
area several times. The call in (2) will use mmap with MAP_FIXED. This
means that the OS will think that you know exactly what you are doing.
So, if part of the memory has been mapped already by the process it will
just go ahead and reuse that memory.
This means that if we are having multiple threads that do mmap. We can
end up with a situation where we release our mapping in (1). Then
another thread comes in and maps part of the memory that we used to
have. Then we remap over that memory again in (2) with MAP_FIXED. Now we
have a situation where two threads in our process have mapped the same
memory. If both threads try to use it or if one of the threads unmap
part or all of the memory we will crash.
On posix it is possible to unmap any part of a mapped chunk. So, our
proposed solution to the race described above is to not unmap all memory
in (1) but rather just unmap the section at the start and at the end of
the chunk that we mapped to get alignment. This also removes the need
for the loop.
However, on Windows you can only unmap _all_ of the memory that you have
mapped. On the other hand Windows also will not allow you to map over
other mappings, so the original code is actually safe. If we keep the loop.
So, our solution is to treat this differently on Windows and posix
platforms.
Thanks,
Bengt
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