On 11/15/19 4:39 AM, [email protected] wrote:


On 11/14/19 9:07 PM, Chris Plummer wrote:
Hi Coleen,

Is it ok to end up missing some CompiledMethodLoad events? The spec says:

"Sent when a method is compiled and loaded into memory by the VM. If it is unloaded, the CompiledMethodUnload event is sent. If it is moved, the CompiledMethodUnload event is sent, followed by a new CompiledMethodLoad event. Note that a single method may have multiple compiled forms, and that this event will be sent for each form. "

So a method was still "compiled and loaded into memory", right? We just didn't get the event out before it was too late. Is the CompiledMethodUnload still sent?

Yes, the CompiledMethodUnload event would be sent for this.

My first version of my change reported the event without the extra information (inlining and some code blob address location maps). Maybe that would be better.   Here it is and tested successfully with the testcase that crashed.

open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/2019/8173361.02/webrev

The more I look at this code, the more problems I see. get_and_cache_jmethod_id() will send back a jmethodID from when the method was live.  But like the class unloading event, a user cannot trust that the Method* in the jmethodID points to anything valid.

So the spec for CompiledMethodLoad event should say for the method, like the CompiledMethodUnload event: Compiled method being unloaded. For identification of the compiled method only -- the class may be unloaded and therefore the method should not be used as an argument to further JNI or JVMTI functions.
Yes, I agree that with this approach a spec clarification is needed. I just wonder about compatibility for agents that assume it is a valid jmethodID. I suppose if an agent treated it as valid and crashed as a result, this is just moving the crash from the jvmti impl to the agent. We also have to consider that agents might currently treat it as valid for functional purposes, and likely never run into this problem, but with the spec update technically that would mean that they would no longer be able to. However, what's likely is that any existing agent would just continue to be ignorant of this spec change, and continue to run with no issue.


Or we don't send the event like 01.  Either one doesn't crash.
Yeah, I guess I don't have a good answer here. Seems like both approaches have issues. Maybe the correct fix is to keep the nm live until the deferred event can be sent.

thanks,

Chris

Thanks,
Coleen


thanks,

Chris

On 11/14/19 5:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Summary: Don't post information which uses metadata from unloaded nmethods

Tested tier1-3 and 100 times with test that failed (reproduced failure without the fix).

open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/2019/8173361.01/webrev
bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173361

Thanks,
Coleen




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