On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:13:58 GMT, Serguei Spitsyn <sspit...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The JVMTI SetLocalXXX requires the target virtual thread suspended at a 
>> breakpoint or single step event.
>> 
>> This is the relevant statement from the "Local Variable" section:
>> 
>> `The SetLocalXXX functions may be used to set the value of a local variable 
>> in the topmost frame of a virtual thread suspended at a breakpoint or single 
>> step event.
>> `
>> This fix is to return the JVMTI_ERROR_OPAQUE_FRAME in cases when the target 
>> thread is not at a breakpoint or single step event. In this case the assert 
>> described in the bug report is avoided:
>> 
>> 
>> open/src/hotspot/share/runtime/vframe.cpp:300
>> # assert(stack_chunk() == __null) failed: Not supported for heap frames 
>> 
>> Also, this is an analysis from Ron:
>> 
>> The problem occurs because the thread is suspended at a safepoint poll on 
>> return in the oldest thawed frame. The safepoint happens after the frame is 
>> popped but before it returns to the return barrier, thawing the caller (and 
>> so the stack looks as if we're in enterSpecial). In that case the virtual 
>> thread's topmost frame is still frozen on the heap, even though it is 
>> mounted.
>> 
>> However, the spec says that a set local operation should succeed for the 
>> topmost frame of a mounted virtual thread only if the thread is suspended 
>> *at a breakpoint or a single-step event*, and I don't think we can stop at 
>> that safepoint in that case.
>> 
>> If so, the fix is simple: if we're trying to set, even if the virtual thread 
>> is mounted and the depth is zero, if the frame is a heap frame, we should 
>> return an OPAQUE_FRAME error. The test should be changed as well to accept 
>> such an error if the thread is suspended not at a breakpoint/single-step. 
>> 
>> 
>> Changes `GetSetLocalTest` test are taken from the repo-loom repository. It 
>> was an update from Leonid which is needed to reproduce this problem.
>> 
>> The fix was tested with thousands of runs of the `GetSetLocalTest` on Linux, 
>> Windows and MacOs.
>> 
>> Will also submit nsk.jvmti and nsk.jdi test runs on mach5.
>
> Serguei Spitsyn has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8286580 review: remove unneeded sentence in the comment

Marked as reviewed by cjplummer (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk19/pull/42

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