I made mentioned cleanups in changed code, just in case here is a webrev without functional changes: function renaming, comments, indents (just a couple), void*.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.04/

Started dev-submit for that patch.

-Dmitry

On 2/25/19 9:37 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
+1

Much cleaner, since it does not need to be more general.

I'd probably add a comment to the ThreadJavaMain method
to say why it is needed.

BTW, it looks like the indents have gotten mixed up between 2 spaces and 4.
For the libjli it should be 4 spaces.
But this change is probably not the place to fix it and it is locally consistent.

Thanks, Roger

On 02/25/2019 01:16 PM, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:

On Feb 25, 2019, at 9:09 AM, Dmitry Chuyko <dmitry.chu...@bell-sw.com> wrote:

On 2/22/19 9:55 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
Hi,

After a closer look, I'd take the route of the 01 webrev.
It is more localized and does not force the function signature needed
by pthread_create to be propagated elsewhere.

The code can be a lot more comprehensible by renaming the CallIntFunc
function to be specific to ContinueInNewThread0. It looks like a trampoline to me. The data structure being passed is on the stack of the caller of pthread_create. It seems safe to refer to it here because the caller will wait in pthread_join.
After some hesitation it looks like ContinueInNewThread0 may know about JavaMain just like ContinueInNewThread, no need to work with abstract continuation. Even that abstract continuation is limited to int return type. In webrev.02 continuation gets platform specific signature. But then we have to cast the result where the call is direct. Another approach in that direction could be to add result field in JavaMainArgs, but it will again force ContinueInNewThread0 to know about continuation's parameters structure as there may be a direct call of continuation.

If we let ContinueInNewThread0 call only JavaMain, it all can work without extra trampoline structures (just need a wrapper):

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.03/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.03/>
I like it! Since ContinueInNewThread0 is now always calling JavaMain I guess it could be renamed to CallJavaMainInNewThread (or something to that same effect).
I'm fine with the rename (no additional review necessary).


Minor nit: some consistency in where the ‘*’ is placed in the various “void *” places would be nice.

Cheers,
Mikael

-Dmitry

Also important is to document that the return type is specific to the OS and is needed to cast the return value expected by the start_pthread_create
start_routine.  That may still be in question because pthread_create
expects void*.

$.02, Roger


On 02/22/2019 10:32 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
Hi,

If the warning can be addressed with an extra in-line cast then that's cleaner and easier to understand than replicating that structure in 3 files.
And of course, add a comment.
To make the source more readable, the cast could be factored
into a macro in the same file with the comment about why it is needed.

Roger


On 02/21/2019 11:07 PM, David Holmes wrote:
On 22/02/2019 4:55 am, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
The wrapper based solution looks much cleaner to me as well. webrev.01 looks good.
Sorry I really don't like it. The wrappers obfuscate and make complicated something that is not at all complicated. I have to re-read the new code 3 times to figure out what it is even doing!

All that complexity to handle the fact one platform wants to return int instead of void* ??
The complexity is due to the function being called in some other thread context and there is a necessary cast/type conversion on the return value from the start_routine that has to come back through pthread to pthread_join.


David
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(not a Reviewer)

Cheers,
Mikael

On Feb 21, 2019, at 9:55 AM, Dmitry Chuyko <dmitry.chu...@bell-sw.com> wrote:

To me thread function wrappers look preferable to platform specific JavaMain signature. Consider this webrev with wrappers:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.01/

In some cases JavaMain is called in the same thread and its result is returned from JLI_Launch. ContinueInNewThread is in shared code. And JavaMain uses macro controlled returns. So when JavaMain returns THREAD_FUNC_RETURN changes may contain some quite artificial macro parts in java.c:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.02/

-Dmitry

On 12/19/18 9:27 AM, David Holmes wrote:
On 19/12/2018 1:56 am, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
On 12/18/18 3:39 AM, David Holmes wrote:
On 11/12/2018 9:30 pm, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
On 12/11/18 4:03 AM, David Holmes wrote:
Hi Dmitry,

On 11/12/2018 12:16 am, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
Hello,

Please review a small fix in java_md_solinux.c: continuation is not truly compatible with pthread_create start_routine's signature but we control what actually happens. So it makes sense to add intermediate void* cast to silence the error.
I'd be tempted to fix the signature and get rid of all the casts.
David, the signature is a signature of

int JNICALL JavaMain(void * _args)

It would be fun to change it. But still on Windows it is correctly passed to _beginthreadex() and then return code is extracted with GetExitCodeThread(). In case we want it to return void* the cast will move there.
I think the current double cast is truly ugly and an ifdef for windows, or a cast for Windows only would be an improvement.
I agree. Maybe making a wrapper function is not so ugly. If there are no objections to changing beginning of the call stack it is quite easy to implement. For consistency it may be done for all 3 points (posix unix, posix mac, windows) or just for posix ones.

It looks like ifdef should be better as long as there are already OS-specific parts in libjli. Again, if there are no objections to have different JavaMain signatures on different platforms. In this case there won't be a signature cast for Windows.
How about setting

#define THREAD_FUNC_RETURN int

in windows/java_md.h.

Then:

#ifndef THREAD_FUNC_RETURN
    #define THREAD_FUNC_RETURN void*
#endif

in java.h (after the other includes).

Then:

THREAD_FUNC_RETURN JNICALL
JavaMain(void * _args)

in java.c.

?

Cheers,
David


-Dmitry

But I won't impose that on you just to silence gcc 8.

Cheers,
David

-Dmitry

Cheers,
David

bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215009
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.00/ testing: submit repo (mach5-one-dchuyko-JDK-8215009-20181207-1625-13615: PASSED)

-Dmitry


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