On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:21:42 GMT, Per Minborg <pminb...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This PR proposes the introduction of **guarding** of the use of
>> `DirectBuffer::address` within the JDK. With the introduction of the Foreign
>> Function and Memory access, it is possible to derive Buffer instances that
>> are backed by native memory that, in turn, can be closed asynchronously by
>> the user (and not only via a `Cleaner` when there is no other reference to
>> the `Buffer` object). If another thread is invoking `MemorySession::close`
>> while a thread is doing work using raw addresses, the outcome is undefined.
>> This means the JVM might crash or even worse, silent modification of
>> unrelated memory might occur.
>>
>> Design choices in this PR:
>>
>> There is already a method `MemorySession::whileAlive` that takes a runnable
>> and that will perform the provided action while acquiring the underlying`
>> MemorySession` (if any). However, using this method entailed relatively
>> large changes while converting larger/nested code segments into lambdas.
>> This would also risk introducing lambda capturing. So, instead, a
>> try-with-resources friendly access method was added. This made is more easy
>> to add guarding and did not risk lambda capturing. Also, introducing lambdas
>> in certain fundamental JDK classes might incur bootstrap problems.
>>
>> The aforementioned TwR is using a "session acquisition" that is not used
>> explicitly in the try block itself. This raises a warning that is suppressed
>> using `@SuppressWarnings("try")`. In the future, we might be able to remove
>> these suppressions by using the reserved variable name `_`. Another
>> alternative was evaluated where a non-autocloseable resource was used.
>> However, it became relatively complicated to guarantee that the session was
>> always released and, at the same time, the existing 'final` block was always
>> executed properly (as they both might throw exceptions). In the end, the
>> proposed solution was much simpler and robust despite requiring a
>> non-referenced TwR variable.
>>
>> In some cases, where is is guaranteed that the backing memory session is
>> non-closeable, we do not have to guard the use of `DirectBuffer::address`.
>> ~~These cases have been documented in the code.~~
>>
>> On some occasions, a plurality of acquisitions are made. This would never
>> lead to deadlocks as acquisitions are fundamentally concurrent counters and
>> not resources that only one thread can "own".
>>
>> I have added comments (and not javadocs) before the declaration of the
>> non-public-api `DirectBuffer::address` method, that the use of the returned
>> address needs to be guarded. It can be discussed if this is preferable or
>> not.
>>
>> This PR spawns several areas of responsibility and so, I expect more than
>> one reviewer before promoting the PR.
>
> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> Reformat and fix comment
> The latest version
> ([30aff11](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/30aff1187d4978c59d1e6feebafc2d45aba3e5f2))
> looks quite good but the naming at the use sites (`var scope =
> NIO_ACCESS.acquireSession(buffer);`) is temporarily confusing. Will that be
> fixed with the JEP 434 integrated or soon afterwards?
The name was selected in anticipation of the proposed renaming in JEP 434. I
think once the JEP is merged, we can rename some of the methods (*Session* ->
*Scope*) and then the user site naming would be much better. Another
alternative, which certainly can be done, is to rename `scope` to `session` and
then rename these back again when the JEP is merged. What is the preferred way
in your opinion?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11260
