Related lore: https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1540 & https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1751. Please, go check those up if you miss the context.
As we established in [JDK-8367151](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8367151)/https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1751, LR2 and FP2 are not reliable (resp. not patched for deopt and not known by deopt code, not updated by GC). Since reading them is probably fine, but maybe not, it is risky to leave reasonable value there. In debug, I suggest we store a magic but recognizable value to make more obvious one read the wrong copy, actually, we don't really need LR2 and FP2 to contain lr and rfp, we mostly need it to make space between the stack extension and the proper frame to pretend it is like a scalarized call. What I propose here is similar to zapping unused space freed by the GC: when `ZapUnusedHeapArea`, that is `trueInDebug`, we zap the heap not to read something good-looking when we have a wrong pointer. https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/1144cb4c5183c69a74aa0211f7ead5ac388ee41d/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp#L482-L483 https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/1144cb4c5183c69a74aa0211f7ead5ac388ee41d/src/hotspot/share/gc/serial/serialFullGC.cpp#L371-L373 What I'm not sure about: - should I make the `save_fake_rfp_lr` an argument also in product build, just unused, to avoid the slightly ugly `NOT_PRODUCT(COMMA save_fake_rfp_lr)`? - how should I name `save_fake_rfp_lr`? I think it is clear, but not great. - I've introduced a new value to zap registers, that looks special, but that is not what `badHeapWord` to avoid confusion. Any opinion on the variable name and the magic value? I intend to reuse it to zap other registers (the caller-saved ones). - is there an easier way to write a 64-bit immediate in a register in Aarch64?! I found movptr, but it asserts the immediate is an address and so, that it is actually only 48-bits. I've wrote my own, because I couldn't find another example pointing me to an existing implementation of that, but I've probably missed something. I've also elected not to make a flag but just to make mandatory to write these magic value in debug mode. I don't think it's worth a flag, as I see little benefit in not doing it: the performance cost is surely very marginal. Also, adding a flag, even develop, also implies some commitment (might end up in some tests or scripts), make sure it works to turn it on and off... Not terrible complications, but still a useless overhead. And as proof it works: - before [JDK-8367151](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8367151) it makes `CorrectlyRestoreRfp.java` crash quickly - now, if one breakpoints in `CorrectlyRestoreRfp.java` just before the call to `LargeValueWithOops.verify` in `LargeValueWithOops.compile_me_C2_verify`: https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/1144cb4c5183c69a74aa0211f7ead5ac388ee41d/test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/valhalla/inlinetypes/CorrectlyRestoreRfp.java#L95-L97 one can see a stack like: (rr) x/16xg $sp 0xffff7dea3f40: 0x0000ffff7dea3fa0 0x0000ffffa453d398 0xffff7dea3f50: 0x000000061c269230 0x0000ffffa4acb364 0xffff7dea3f60: 0x0000000000000002 0x0000ffff94906390 0xffff7dea3f70: 0x00000006bd264f28 0xfffffffffffffff2 0xffff7dea3f80: 0x0000ffff94907c78 0x0000000000000070 <-- [...] | sp_inc 0xffff7dea3f90: 0xcafefadecafefade 0xcafefadecafefade <-- my fake values, taking space of FP2/LR2 0xffff7dea3fa0: 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000050 <-- the stack extension 0xffff7dea3fb0: 0x000000061c269230 0x0000ffff9d0002fc <-- an OOP in rfp | the return address Thanks, Marc ------------- Commit messages: - Not in product - Assert doesn't make sense anymore - Save fake values instead of lr/rfp Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1764/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=1764&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8371993 Stats: 52 lines in 6 files changed: 25 ins; 16 del; 11 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1764.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/1764/head:pull/1764 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1764
