On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 09:06:07 GMT, Erik Österlund <eosterl...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The imasm::remove_activation() call does not deal with safepoints very well. 
>> However, when the MethodExit JVMTI event is being called, we call into the 
>> runtime in the middle of remove_activation(). If the value being returned is 
>> an object type, then the top-of-stack contains the oop. However, the GC does 
>> not traverse said oop in any oop map, because it is simply not expected that 
>> we safepoint in the middle of remove_activation().
>> 
>> The JvmtiExport::post_method_exit() function we end up calling, reads the 
>> top-of-stack oop, and puts it in a handle. Then it calls JVMTI callbacks, 
>> that eventually call Java and a bunch of stuff that safepoints. So after the 
>> JVMTI callback, we can expect the top-of-stack oop to be broken. 
>> Unfortunately, when we continue, we therefore end up returning a broken oop.
>> 
>> Notably, the fact that InterpreterRuntime::post_method_exit is a JRT_ENTRY, 
>> is wrong, as we can safepoint on the way back to Java, which will break the 
>> return oop in a similar way. So this patch makes it a JRT_BLOCK_ENTRY, 
>> moving the transition to VM and back, into a block of code that is protected 
>> against GC. Before the JRT_BLOCK is called, we stash away the return oop, 
>> and after the JRT_BLOCK_END, we restore the top-of-stack oop. In the path 
>> when InterpreterRuntime::post_method_exit is called when throwing an 
>> exception, we don't have the same problem of retaining an oop result, and 
>> hence the JRT_BLOCK/JRT_BLOCK_END section is not performed in this case; the 
>> logic is the same as before for this path. 
>> 
>> This is a JVMTI bug that has probably been around for a long time. It 
>> crashes with all GCs, but was discovered recently after concurrent stack 
>> processing, as StefanK has been running better GC stressing code in JVMTI, 
>> and the bug reproduced more easily with concurrent stack processing, as the 
>> timings were a bit different. The following reproducer failed pretty much 
>> 100% of the time:
>> while true; do make test JTREG="RETAIN=all" 
>> TEST=test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/MethodExitEvent/returnValue/returnValue003/returnValue003.java
>>  TEST_OPTS_JAVA_OPTIONS="-XX:+UseZGC -Xmx2g -XX:ZCollectionInterval=0.0001 
>> -XX:ZFragmentationLimit=0.01 -XX:+VerifyOops -XX:+ZVerifyViews -Xint" ; done 
>> 
>> With my fix I can run this repeatedly without any more failures. I have also 
>> sanity checked the patch by running tier 1-5, so that it does not introduces 
>> any new issues on its own. I have also used Stefan's nice external GC 
>> stressing with jcmd technique that was used to trigger crashes with other 
>> GCs, to make sure said crashes no longer reproduce either.
>
> Erik Österlund has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Serguei CR2: Don't check interpreted only

Still looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/930

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