JDK-6953483 : Typo related to ReduceInitialCardMarks leaves concurrent collectors vulnerable to heap corruption
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: gc
  • Affected Version: hs18
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2010-05-18
  • Updated: 2013-09-18
  • Resolved: 2010-06-01
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6u21Fixed 7Fixed hs17Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-6896647 - card marks can be deferred too long
Relates :  
JDK-6920109 - G1: lingering instabilities with ReduceInitialCardMarks
Relates :  
JDK-6920090 - G1: Disable ReduceInitialCardMarks at least until 6920109 is fixed
Relates :  
JDK-6888898 - CMS: ReduceInitialCardMarks unsafe in the presence of cms precleaning
Description
Leaves ReduceInitialCardMarks potentially troublesome for concurrent collectors.
Here's an email from ChengGuang Sun < ###@###.### > at
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2010-May/001819.html :-



Hi,

    I'm reading the code and have noticed a minor typo in the function
"CollectedHeap::pre_initialize()".

    I think it should be "#ifdef COMPILER2" instead of "#ifdef
COMPLER2". I haven't checked whether it has been corrected in the
latest revision.

Thanks,
Chen
Comments
EVALUATION http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx17/master/rev/8df74da5c44b
21-05-2010
EVALUATION http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx17/baseline/rev/8df74da5c44b
20-05-2010
EVALUATION http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-gc/hotspot/rev/15190cbcabe9
20-05-2010
SUGGESTED FIX diff -r a00b51b2dda4 src/share/vm/gc_interface/collectedHeap.cpp --- a/src/share/vm/gc_interface/collectedHeap.cpp Mon May 17 00:47:28 2010 -0700 +++ b/src/share/vm/gc_interface/collectedHeap.cpp Tue May 18 09:35:50 2010 -0700 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void CollectedHeap::pre_initialize() { void CollectedHeap::pre_initialize() { // Used for ReduceInitialCardMarks (when COMPILER2 is used); // otherwise remains unused. -#ifdef COMPLER2 +#ifdef COMPILER2 _defer_initial_card_mark = ReduceInitialCardMarks && can_elide_tlab_store_barriers() && (DeferInitialCardMark || card_mark_must_follow_store()); #else
18-05-2010
EVALUATION The typo should be corrected as in description section. *** (#1 of 1): [ UNSAVED ] ###@###.###
18-05-2010
WORK AROUND There is not a bug with the stop-world collectors. With concurrent collectors, however, the typo leaves one vulnerable to GC corruption. Fortunately, G1 has this flag switched off by default. To work around the problem when using CMS, use -XX:-ReduceInitialCardMarks.
18-05-2010