Hi
I didn't think of %.XXXXs when Cheleswer and I discussed this briefly.
I'd like to have suggested that, with the idea that the 2k long thread
name is extreme, and it's so important that we preserve the format of
the output, and keep that closing quote, even if we lost some of the
thread name. We currently and probably always have truncated such
names, the problem that triggered this was mainly that the format was
broken.
As there are several places we pass the name to the stream and could hit
the length limit, should we have a THREAD_NAME_FORMAT defined for such
use instead of using %s though the actual length can't be 1996, it's
BUFLEN minus whatever else we expect to be printed in the same print
call. We might guess as low as 1024?
(Retaining one st->print() also minimises any risk of concurrent prints
jumbling up the output.)
Thanks
Kevin
On 21/03/2016 21:24, David Holmes wrote:
On 22/03/2016 2:31 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
On 3/21/16 2:39 AM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
David,
I still see %.Ns as the simplest solution - but whatever.
It spreads artificial limitation of thread name length across hotspot
sources.
Brief grepping[1] shows couple of other places with the same problem
and
if some days we decide to change default O_BUFLEN, we have to not
forget
to change .N value in couple of places as well.
There should be a way to pass the precision value as a parameter instead
of hardcoding it in the format string. Something like:
sprintf("%.*s", precision_value, string);
Yes the length limit can be passed as a variable. But I think Dmitry
just wants to allow for unlimited lengths. Not sure how to achieve
that at the lowest level though as we need to avoid complex
allocations etc in these print routines.
David
Dan
1.
./share/vm/prims/jni.cpp
673: "in thread \"%s\" ", thread->get_thread_name());
./share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
1766: get_thread_profiler()->print(get_thread_name());
1974: get_thread_profiler()->print(get_thread_name());
2896: st->print("\"%s\" ", get_thread_name());
2926: st->print("%s", get_thread_name_string(buf, buflen));
2932: st->print("JavaThread \"%s\"", get_thread_name_string(buf,
buflen));
./share/vm/services/threadService.cpp
882: ... st->print_cr("\"%s\":", currentThread->get_thread_name());
919: ..."%s \"%s\"", owner_desc, currentThread->get_thread_name());
932: ... st->print_cr("\"%s\":", currentThread->get_thread_name());
-Dmitry
On 2016-03-19 00:37, David Holmes wrote:
On 18/03/2016 11:28 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
David,
Ignoring Dmitry's issue it still seems simpler/cleaner to just
add the
desired precision value to the %s than to split into two print
statements. Or bite the bullet now and make the length immaterial by
breaking the name into chunks. It's as easy to fix as to write the
RFE :)
For this particular case the simplest solution is to use print_raw:
print_raw("\""\"); print_raw(get_thread_name()); print_raw("\""\");
I still see %.Ns as the simplest solution - but whatever.
But as soon as print() finally ends up with:
const int written = vsnprintf(buffer, buflen, format, ap);
...
DEBUG_ONLY(warning("increase O_BUFLEN in ostream.hpp -- output
truncated");)
Complete fix should be something like:
int desired_size = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, format, ap);
if (desired_size > O_BUFLEN) {
malloc
....
}
but it has performance penalty, so we should use some tricks to cover
most common %s/%d/%p cases.
So you want to remove the internal limitation instead of have the
clients deal with it? Not sure it is worth the effort - IIRC that code
can be used at sensitive times hence the simple approach to buffer
management.
David
-Dmitry
On 2016-03-18 15:51, David Holmes wrote:
On 18/03/2016 10:03 PM, Cheleswer Sahu wrote:
Hi David,
-----Original Message-----
From: David Holmes
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 2:42 PM
To: Cheleswer Sahu; hotspot-runtime-...@openjdk.java.net;
serviceability-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: RFR[9u-dev]: 8151442: jstack doesn't close quotation
marks properly with threads' name greater than 1996 characters
On 18/03/2016 5:54 PM, Cheleswer Sahu wrote:
Hi,
Please review the code changes for
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151442.
Webrev Link: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~csahu/8151442/
Bug Brief:
In jstack thread dumps , thread name greater than 1996 characters
doesn't close quotation marks properly.
Anyone giving a thread a name that long deserves to get a core
dump!
;-)
Problem Identified:
Jstack is using below code to print thread name
src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
void JavaThread::print_on(outputStream *st) const {
st->print("\"%s\" ", get_thread_name());
Here "st->print()" internally uses max buffer length as O_BUFLEN
(2000).
void
outputStream::do_vsnprintf_and_write_with_automatic_buffer(const
char* format, va_list ap, bool add_cr) {
char buffer[O_BUFLEN];
do_vsnprintf_and_write_with_automatic_buffer() finally calls
"vsnprintf()" which truncates the anything greater than the
max
size(2000). In this case thread's name(> 1996) along with
quotation
marks (2)
plus one terminating character exceeds the max buffer size
(2000),
therefore the closing quotation marks gets truncated.
Solution:
Split the "st->print("\"%s\" ", get_thread_name())" in two
statements
1.st->print("\"%s", get_thread_name());
2.st->print("\" ");
This will ensure presence of closing quotation mark always.
Can't we just limit the number of characters read by %s?
Yes we can do it, but just one thing which I think of is, if the
truncation of output inside output stream issue get resolves as
Dmritry suggested or O_BUFFLEN size gets increased in any
future fix
then we have to again make changes in this code, as limiting the
no.
of character read by %s will give truncated output . In such case
present fix will have no effect.
Ignoring Dmitry's issue it still seems simpler/cleaner to just
add the
desired precision value to the %s than to split into two print
statements. Or bite the bullet now and make the length immaterial by
breaking the name into chunks. It's as easy to fix as to write the
RFE :)
David
David
Regards,
Cheleswer