Thank you very much for the response, Alan. I have been working on
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200613, which is wrt the
shared strings CDS regions not getting dumped onto the process corefiles
on Linux. To fix this, I am modifying the process coredump_filter file
to enable file-backed private mappings of the process to also get dumped
into the corefiles. This causes the mmap()-ed image file to also get
dumped into the corefile -- and we are trying to avoid this by calling
ImageFileReader::close() before the corefile gets dumped, so that we can
avoid the additional 140MB in the corefile.
My query was prompted by the fact that inspite of calling
ImageFileReader::close() before getting the corefile dumped, there was
not much of a difference in the corefile size.
Thanks,
Jini.
On 12/5/2018 6:07 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 05/12/2018 12:26, Jini George wrote:
Hello!
I needed a clarification regarding the amount of memory unmapped
during imagefile closure in
src/java.base/share/native/libjimage/imageFile.cpp.
I noticed that when the "modules" file is opened in
ImageFileReader::open(), and the contents are mmap()-ed, the size to
be mmap()-ed is derived from map_size().
399 // Memory map image (minimally the index.)
400 _index_data = (u1*)osSupport::map_memory(_fd, _name, 0,
(size_t)map_size());
Which could be _file_size or _index_size, and for 64 bit processes, it
would be _file_size. (about 140 MB)
488 // Retrieve the size of the mapped image.
489 inline u8 map_size() const {
490 return (u8)(memory_map_image ? _file_size : _index_size);
491 }
But when the contents are unmapped in ImageFileReader::close(), the
amount of memory unmapped is only _index_size (which is considerably
lesser than _file_size).
427 // Close image file.
428 void ImageFileReader::close() {
429 // Deallocate the index.
430 if (_index_data) {
431 osSupport::unmap_memory((char*)_index_data, _index_size);
432 _index_data = NULL;
433 }
Wanted to check if this is an oversight, or if there is a reason
behind this and I am missing something. Shouldn't the amount of memory
unmapped be map_size() too ?
It doesn't look right but needs closer examination. However, I'm curious
how you are running into it as it will be completely unmapped when the
VM terminates. Is this a tool or test that runs "in process"?
-Alan
