Hi David,
On 06/05/16 15:38, David Holmes wrote:
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for taking a look at this.
On 6/05/2016 5:02 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
Hi David,
I looked through the GC part of this webrev and I think the change is
fine.
However, it seems a bit error prone. If we decide to change the code to,
for example, terminate the AbstractGangWorker threads, then we have to
remember to insert a ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL) call.
That's why I added the ShouldNotReachHere()'s - if those threads start
terminating then we will see those hit. Perhaps a comment:
ShouldNotReachHere(); // If thread terminates we have to do TLS cleanup
?
Yes, I would appreciate a comment. Though, when we add new threads, we
need to remember to add the set_thread(NULL) call.
Could we instead add a call to ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL), or
maybe even Thread::clear_thread_current(), in java_start?
static void *java_start(Thread *thread) {
[...]
thread->initialize_thread_current();
[...]
// call one more level start routine
thread->run();
////////// Could we call Thread::clear_thread_current(); here?
Not easily. For JavaThreads we've already done "delete this" inside
the run() method, so we'd have to move that into java_start as well,
but we can only do the delete for JavaThreads not for other threads.
And we'd also have to change the VMThread and WatcherThread
termination logic because of the deletes that happen in the
termination thread - the "this" pointer (thread above) may no longer
be valid when we want to call clear_current_thread() - which is why we
can only do the ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL).
I agree it would be a lot cleaner to have java_start do:
thread->common_initialization();
thread->run();
thread->common_cleanup();
delete thread;
for all threads, but we'd need a lot of other changes to allow for
that. Otherwise we would need to note that kind of thread before
calling run() then switch on the thread type after run() to decide
what kind of cleanup is necessary and possible. I don't think that
would be better than just doing the "right" cleanup at the end of the
run() methods.
I understand that this is a bit messy, and I won't insist that we change
this in this RFR, but without looking at this in much detail it sounds
weird to delete the thread in run(). Couldn't this be solved by
introducing a virtual Thread::post_run() function and do:
virtual void Thread::post_run() {
clear_thread_current();
}
virtual void JavaThread::post_run() {
Thread::post_run();
delete this;
}
Thanks,
StefanK
Thanks,
David
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log_info(os, thread)("Thread finished (tid: " UINTX_FORMAT ", pthread
id: " UINTX_FORMAT ").",
os::current_thread_id(), (uintx) pthread_self());
return 0;
}
And get rid of the explicit calls to
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL) you added?
Thanks,
StefanK
On 04/05/16 01:39, David Holmes wrote:
This needs attention from GC and runtime folk please.
bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154715
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8154715/webrev/
tl;dr: ensure ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL) is always called
before a thread terminates.
Background:
Most system-related threads do not expect to explicitly terminate,
except sometimes as part of VM termination. Such threads don't have
their destructors called, but should.
This omission came to light due to the ThreadLocalStorage changes in
JDK-8132510. As part of that change we deleted the following from the
termination path of the VMThread:
// Thread destructor usually does this.
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL);
The clearing of TLS seemed irrelevant to the VMThread as it primarily
is used to aid in JNI attach/detach. However Brian Gardner reported:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2016-February/002788.html
a problem on FreeBSD caused by this change and the interaction with
the POSIX pthread TLS destructor use introduced by JDK-8033696.
Because the VMThread terminated without clearing TLS, when the
TLS-destructor was called it got into a loop which ran four times (as
happens on Linux) and then prints a warning to the console (which
doesn't happen on Linux).
This indicates we need to restore the:
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL);
but on further consideration it seems to me that this is not confined
to the VMThread, and the most appropriate fix would be to always
invoke the Thread destructor as a thread terminates.
Solution:
Further investigation shows that calling the Thread destructor in the
thread as it terminates is not possible:
- VMThread
This is actually destroyed by the thread that terminates the VM, but
that can happen after it terminates and so we still hit the TLS
problem. The VMThread may be able to destroy itself today but in the
past this was not possible (see existing code comment), and in the
future it may also not be possible - the problem is that the Thread
destructor can interact with other VM subsystems that are concurrently
being torn down by the thread that is terminating the VM. In the past
this was the CodeHeap. So rather than introduce something that is
fragile we stick with the current scheme but restore the
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL); - note we can't access "this" at
that time because it may already have been de-allocated.
- WatcherThread
The WatcherThread is never destroyed today but has the same problem as
the VMThread. We can call the destructor from the VM termination
thread (and have implemented that), but not from the WatcherThread
itself. So again we just have to restore the
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL); to fix the potential TLS problem.
- GC Threads
There are two cases:
a) GC threads that never terminate
For these we don't need to do anything: we can't delete the thread as
it never terminates and we don't hit the TLS problem because it never
terminates. So all we will do here is add some logic to check (in
NON_PRODUCT) that we do in fact never terminate.
b) GC threads that can terminate
Despite the fact the threads can terminate, references to those
threads are stored elsewhere (WorkGangs and other places) and are not
cleared as part of the termination process. Those references can be
touched after the thread has terminated so we can not call the
destructor at all. So again all we can do (without some major thread
management reworking) is ensure that
ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL); is called before the thread
actually terminates
Testing: JPRT
RBT - runtime nightly tests
Thanks,
David
