RFR: 8267155: runtime/os/TestTracePageSizes times out [v6]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 20 May 2021 05:29:57 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This Linux-specific test parses `/proc/self/smaps` using a dotall regular expression. If part of the expression don't match it explodes in complexity, leading to timeouts.
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>> In our case, `VmFlags` tag was missing from smaps, which was introduced with kernel 3.8. I am actually not able to determine how slow they were; on one machine they ran for two hours before getting killed.
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>> I tried to fiddle with the regular expression and gave up, instead opting to rewrite the parser to get a simple one-pass scan. This is way faster than before - on our old-kernel machines the tests complete in 2 minutes. On new kernels the test is a bit faster too.
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>> In addition to rewriting the parser, I added code which copies the smaps file into the test directory before parsing it. I do this to minimize problems should the underlying proc fs content change while parsing, and to have a way to retain the parsed smaps files.
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>> I also added a way to feed an external smaps file into the test. Of course the test would fail, but it was a way to test the parser.
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>> Unfortunately, this does not make the test succeed. The timeouts are gone, but we have still have no way to know if TPHs are enabled or not. That is a separate issue though.
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>> Thanks, Thomas
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   final review feedback

Thanks Alexey and Stefan.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4064