On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:17:56 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I noticed that "clhsdb jstack" seemed to hang when I attached to process with > a somewhat large heap. It had taken over 10 minutes when I finally decided to > have a look at the SA process (using bin/jstack), which came up with the > following in the stack: > > > at > sun.jvm.hotspot.oops.ObjectHeap.iterateObjectsOfKlass([jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal](jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal)/ObjectHeap.java:117) > at > sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.ConcurrentLocksPrinter.fillLocks([jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal](jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal)/ConcurrentLocksPrinter.java:70) > at > sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.ConcurrentLocksPrinter.<init>([jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal](jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal)/ConcurrentLocksPrinter.java:36) > at > sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.StackTrace.run([jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal](jdk.hotspot.agent@23-internal)/StackTrace.java:71) > > > This code is meant to print information about j.u.c. locks. It it works by > searching the entire java heap for instances of AbstractOwnableSynchronizer. > This is a very expensive operation because it means not only does SA need to > read in the entire java heap, but it needs to create a Klass mirror for every > heap object so it can determine its type. > > Our testing doesn't seem to run into this slowness problem because "clhsdb > jstack" only iterates over the heap if AbstractOwnableSynchronizer has been > loaded, which it won't be if no j.u.c. locks have been created. This seems to > be the case wherever we use "clhsdb jstack" in testing. We do have some tests > that likely result in j.u.c locks, but they all use "jhsdb jstack", which > doesn't have this issue (it requires use of the --locks argument to enable > printing of j.u.c locks). > > This issue was already called out in > [JDK-8262098](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8262098). For this CR I am > proposing that "clhsdb jstack" not include j.u.c lock scanning by default, > and add the -l argument to enable it. This will make it similar to > bin/jstack, which also has a -l argument, and to "clhsdb jstack", which has a > --locks argument (which maps internally to the Jstack.java -l argument). > > The same changes are also being made to "clhsdb pstack". > > Tested with all tier1, tier2, and tier5 svc tests. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 192349ee Author: Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/192349eee4b6d50f16d44969eb882875c67d651d Stats: 228 lines in 10 files changed: 204 ins; 1 del; 23 mod 8324066: "clhsdb jstack" should not by default scan for j.u.c locks because it can be very slow Reviewed-by: kevinw, amenkov ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17479