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This patch solved the sempahore overflow issue with errno ERANGE or EOVERFLOW.
Previously, we have asymmetric p/v operations for semaphore _sem. Each iteration
only decrements _sem 1 but dequeues N messages. If logging threads keep preempting
async logging thread, it may cause the value of _sem accumulates until overflow!

We decide to ditch counting semaphore. os::PlatformMonitor can be used as low-level
combination of Mutex/CondVar. It may work if we simply ignore Semaphore::signal failure
due to value overflow, but we have to pollute Semaphore interface. Also it seems that MacOS
semaphore which is non-posix doesn't fail in this case.


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Hi Xin,

I wasn't expecting to see an attempt to balance the semaphore count on each write, but this seems to be okay.

One simplification suggested below.

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int n = write();
for (int i = n - 1; i > 0; --i) {
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while (--n > 0) { // pre-decrement as we already performed the first wait

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Sorry I have to withdraw my initial review approval.

This certainly helps allow the writer thread to catch up sooner, but there is still no guarantee that it will keep up with the loggers sufficient to avoid the overflow.

What we have to ensure in addition is that the number of outstanding log messages permitted by the buffer size is always less than the max value allow by the semaphore. Unfortunately we don't know what that value is.

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What we have to ensure in addition is that the number of outstanding log messages permitted by the buffer size is always less than the max value allow by the semaphore. Unfortunately we don't know what that value is.

On Linux, SEM_VALUE_MAX is defined in <semaphore.h>. we can add an assertion that assert(_buffer_max_size < SEM_VALUE_MAX) . Currently, it seems that hotspot needs to support 3 semaphores.

  1. Posix semaphore of glibc. -- SEM_VALUE_MAX
  2. Windows API -- LONG_MAX
  3. MacOS -- I have found document for this.

Yes, you just unveil another issue. I found _buffer_max_size is 91k if I use -XX:AsyncLogBufferSize=50M. That value is bigger than SEM_VALUE_MAX of AIX.

The maximum entries of AsyncLogBuffer: 91022

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I don't like the idea of trying to limit the log size based on a platform specific private implementation detail - and you'd have to check that against any user supplied buffer size and reject a too large buffer.

The other option is revert these changes and expose a way to ignore the ERANGE error in Semaphore.

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I've been thinking about how to handle the ERANGE/EOVERFLOW in the Semaphore API. A default arg is one way. I was also considering a specific signal_xx method that allows overflow; or report to the caller that overflow happened. Not sure what might be best. What you have might be simplest for 17 but there are still some issues that need further investigation. See comments below. I think we need other opinions here too.

I'm surprised macOS has no overflow checks, it looks like its counter will just wrap when it overflows - which would break things, but of course is very unlikely in real use.

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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ WindowsSemaphore::~WindowsSemaphore() {
::CloseHandle(_semaphore);
}

void WindowsSemaphore::signal(uint count) {
void WindowsSemaphore::signal(uint count, bool ignore_overflow) {
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I believe the Windows ReleaseSemaphore can also fail with the equivalent of EOVERFLOW if the count would exceed the maximum allowed. We either need to dig deeper into what value of GetlastError we would see, or else ignore all errors if ignore_overflow is set. I think I can tweak a gtest to see what happens.

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// The only difference between this and Semaphore is that
// it ignores errno ERANGE and EOVERFLOW.
class AsyncLogSemaphore : public CHeapObj<mtSynchronizer> {
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I don't think this is necessary, just call wait(1, true) where needed.

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I ran a test on Linux, Windows and OSX. As expected Linux gives EOVERFLOW. OSX the test just times out without error.

On Windows we get error 298:

ERROR_TOO_MANY_POSTS
298 (0x12A)
Too many posts were made to a semaphore.

so I think we should check for that and ignore it if ignoring overflow.

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got it. I will cover Windows.

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I'm surprised macOS has no overflow checks, it looks like its counter will just wrap when it overflows - which would break things, but of course is very unlikely in real use.

Unlike Posix and Win32, it's not easy for me to find any document about Darwin semaphore API.

I guess this is the equivalence of glibc on MacOS. check out semaphore_signal_internal.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-344.21.74/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c.auto.html

if count has overflown, it should return kr from wait_queue_wakeup64_thread_locked.

This patch handles overflow scenerios for Posix and Windows.
MacOS platform doesn't have any error so we ignore it.
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Figuring out the best way to handle this is proving to be quite tricky - sorry. I need to think some more about it. Unfortunately I'm away for a few days after today.

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@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ class Semaphore : public CHeapObj<mtSynchronizer> {
Semaphore(uint value = 0) : _impl(value) {}
~Semaphore() {}

void signal(uint count = 1) { _impl.signal(count); }
void signal(uint count = 1) { _impl.signal(count, false /* ignore_overflow */); }
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Please change comment to:

/* don't ignore overflow */

as that describes what the false argument actually means, rather than just showing what parameter it is providing the value for.

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// Ignore error of overflow
void signal_overflow(uint count = 1) {
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I'm a bit unsure about how to name and describe this given that the overflow check only relates to debug builds - in a product build both signal and signal_overflow are identical.

I had missed previously that the ignore_overflow parameter was only in the impl API not the main public API.

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Thanks you for reviewing this change.

The reason we only had ignore_overflow in impl API because I defined my own platform-independent Semaphore class, aka. AsyncLogSemaphore in previous revision. I changed type of _sem from Sempahore to AsyncLogSemaphore. I "overloaded" signal(uint count) in that way so I don't pollute "public API".

I don't think this is necessary, just call wait(1, true) where needed.

I think your opinion is that it's not necessary. how about I just add a second parameter ignore_overflow to Semaphore::signal with the default value = false?

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navyxliu commented Jul 8, 2021

Hi, @tstuefe ,
Do you mind trying this patch? David and I think we should ignore sem_post error when its value has been overflown. It happens rarely and ignoring this error won't affect correctness. I just wonder if this approach can solve the LogConfigurationTest.reconfigure_decorators_MT_vm failure on AIX?

Figuring out the best way to handle this is proving to be quite tricky

If it works out, the one open issue is what we should do on MacOS. My option is that we just leave it alone since semaphore_signal(not posix semaphore) on Darwin doesn't overflow. We can revisit this later if the assumption turns out false in the future.

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Sorry for dropping out, I'm snowed in. I put the patch into our AIX CI. Due to the slowness of our AIX hardware, this may take a day or two.

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navyxliu commented Jul 8, 2021

Thanks! Let's see the result. Meanwhile, allow me refactor this patch and spend more time semaphore of Darwin-XNU

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I'm surprised macOS has no overflow checks, it looks like its counter will just wrap when it overflows - which would break things, but of course is very unlikely in real use.

Unlike Posix and Win32, it's not easy for me to find any document about Darwin semaphore API.

I guess this is the equivalence of glibc on MacOS. check out `semaphore_signal_internal`.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-344.21.74/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c.auto.html

if count has overflown, it should return kr from `wait_queue_wakeup64_thread_locked`.

You mean if count++ wraps around to become negative then the next call
to signal will potentially execute that code? As the count++ happens
after this that doesn't tell us anything about what happens to the
signal that actually causes the overflow.

In any case due diligence has been done here. There is no documented
error for overflow on macOS. A test for overflow failed to trigger any
error within the test timeout period. I'm trying a modified test now to
see if I can get any failure.

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I had a gtest. I think it can trigger overflow issue on different
platforms. Since we don't know the cap, we have to increment it one by
one. I can't hit any assert on MacOS.

TEST(Semaphore, signal_overflow) {
Semaphore sem(0);
sem.signal((uint)-1);
}

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On 7/07/2021 3:26 pm, Xin Liu wrote:

On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 00:40:10 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

I'm surprised macOS has no overflow checks, it looks like its counter will just wrap when it overflows - which would break things, but of course is very unlikely in real use.

Unlike Posix and Win32, it's not easy for me to find any document about Darwin semaphore API.

I guess this is the equivalence of glibc on MacOS. check out `semaphore_signal_internal`.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-344.21.74/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c.auto.html

if count has overflown, it should return kr from `wait_queue_wakeup64_thread_locked`.

You mean if count++ wraps around to become negative then the next call
to signal will potentially execute that code? As the count++ happens
after this that doesn't tell us anything about what happens to the
signal that actually causes the overflow.

In any case due diligence has been done here. There is no documented
error for overflow on macOS. A test for overflow failed to trigger any
error within the test timeout period. I'm trying a modified test now to
see if I can get any failure.

David

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I had a gtest. I think it can trigger overflow issue on different
platforms. Since we don't know the cap, we have to increment it one by
one. I can't hit any assert on MacOS.

TEST(Semaphore, signal_overflow) {
Semaphore sem(0);
sem.signal((uint)-1);
}

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navyxliu commented Jul 9, 2021

One possibility is to change the code to use a Monitor that acts as the
asynclog lock and the wakeup mechanism, with a suitable guard in the
writing code so that we don't try to use the Monitor until after it has
been initialised (which is after the first log writes may occur).

I am not sure about that. The current code derived from there. HotSpot Monitor needs Thread::current(), but the logging event spans from the very beginning to the very end of JVM. We have to circumvent those cases.

On the other hand, I carefully read the implementation of semaphore_signal on Darwin. I am pretty sure it returns KERN_SUCCESS when overflow happens. I added a line of comment in the last revision. Could you take a look at that?

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On 9/07/2021 11:33 am, Xin Liu wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 09:43:11 GMT, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

One possibility is to change the code to use a Monitor that acts as the
asynclog lock and the wakeup mechanism, with a suitable guard in the
writing code so that we don't try to use the Monitor until after it has
been initialised (which is after the first log writes may occur).

I am not sure about that. The current code derived from there. HotSpot Monitor needs Thread::current(), but the logging event spans from the very beginning to the very end of JVM. We have to circumvent those cases.

But we already circumvent that for async logging. We can't use async
logging until after we have called AsyncLogWriter::initialize(). So the
synchronization objects used by AsyncLogWriter can be plain
Mutex/Monitor, they don't need to be Semaphore.

On the other hand, I carefully read the implementation of semaphore_signal on Darwin. I am pretty sure it returns KERN_SUCCESS when overflow happens. I added a line of comment in the last revision. Could you take a look at that?

The issue is not what it returns but how it actually behaves.

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 09:43:11 GMT, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

One possibility is to change the code to use a Monitor that acts as the
asynclog lock and the wakeup mechanism, with a suitable guard in the
writing code so that we don't try to use the Monitor until after it has
been initialised (which is after the first log writes may occur).

I am not sure about that. The current code derived from there. HotSpot Monitor needs Thread::current(), but the logging event spans from the very beginning to the very end of JVM. We have to circumvent those cases.

But we already circumvent that for async logging. We can't use async
logging until after we have called AsyncLogWriter::initialize(). So the
synchronization objects used by AsyncLogWriter can be plain
Mutex/Monitor, they don't need to be Semaphore.

On the other hand, I carefully read the implementation of semaphore_signal on Darwin. I am pretty sure it returns KERN_SUCCESS when overflow happens. I added a line of comment in the last revision. Could you take a look at that?

The issue is not what it returns but how it actually behaves.

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But we already circumvent that for async logging. We can't use async
logging until after we have called AsyncLogWriter::initialize(). So the
synchronization objects used by AsyncLogWriter can be plain
Mutex/Monitor, they don't need to be Semaphore.

That is not true. I deleted finalize() because it was complex and not necessary after we switch from Monitor to Semaphore.
A thread may emit logs even it has deleted itself.

I reviewed this line. https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c#L400
In my understanding, semaphore_signal will try to wake up one in the wait queue of the semaphore. if kr != KERN_SUCCESS, it will reset counter to 0 because no one is waiting for that. In our case, we should take this route. I think the behavior is defined on MacOS.

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:18:28 GMT, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

But we already circumvent that for async logging. We can't use async
logging until after we have called AsyncLogWriter::initialize(). So the
synchronization objects used by AsyncLogWriter can be plain
Mutex/Monitor, they don't need to be Semaphore.

That is not true. I deleted finalize() because it was complex and not necessary after we switch from Monitor to Semaphore.
A thread may emit logs even it has deletes itself.

Ah - sorry. I was looking at the VM initialization issue not the thread
termination issue. Pity.

I reviewed this line. https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c#L400
In my understanding, `semaphore_signal` will try to wait up one in the wait queue of the semaphore. if kr != KERN_SUCCESS, it will reset counter to 0 because no one is waiting on that. In our case, we should take this route. I think the behavior is defined.

Sorry but there is no way I'm going to trust any ad-hoc guesses about
what exactly that code will do. I don't know any of the invariants of
the data structure, exactly what the different fields represent, or how
exactly they are maintained. Heck we don't even know that really is the
code involved!

I will continue to think this about this problem, but I'm not seeing any
solution I like so far.

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On 13/07/2021 11:41 am, Xin Liu wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:18:28 GMT, David Holmes
<david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

But we already circumvent that for async logging. We can't use async
logging until after we have called AsyncLogWriter::initialize(). So the
synchronization objects used by AsyncLogWriter can be plain
Mutex/Monitor, they don't need to be Semaphore.

That is not true. I deleted finalize() because it was complex and not
necessary after we switch from Monitor to Semaphore.
A thread may emit logs even it has deletes itself.

Ah - sorry. I was looking at the VM initialization issue not the thread
termination issue. Pity.

As @pchilano has pointed out to me we can use the lower-level
PlatformMonitor to avoid the problems with Monitor. It is of a similar
low-level as Semaphore.

Instead of having a binary semaphore to control access to the _buffer,
and a counting semaphore to control the wakeup of the async writer
thread, we can just use a PlatformMonitor with a _data_available state
field e.g (rough outline).

void AsyncLogWriter::write() {
AsyncLogBuffer logs;

{ // critical region
AsyncLogLocker locker;

_buffer.pop_all(&logs);
// append meta-messages of dropped counters
AsyncLogMapIterator dropped_counters_iter(logs);
_stats.iterate(&dropped_counters_iter);
_data_available = false;
}
...
}

void AsyncLogWriter::run() {
while (true) {
{
AsyncLogLocker locker;
while (!_data_available) _lock.wait();
}
write();
}
}

void AsyncLogWriter::enqueue_locked(const AsyncLogMessage& msg) {
...
_buffer.push_back(msg);
_data_available = true;
_lock.notify();
}

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I reviewed this line.
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/main/osfmk/kern/sync_sema.c#L400
In my understanding, `semaphore_signal` will try to wait up one in the
wait queue of the semaphore. if kr != KERN_SUCCESS, it will reset
counter to 0 because no one is waiting on that. In our case, we should
take this route.? I think the behavior is defined.

Sorry but there is no way I'm going to trust any ad-hoc guesses about
what exactly that code will do. I don't know any of the invariants of
the data structure, exactly what the different fields represent, or how
exactly they are maintained. Heck we don't even know that really is the
code involved!

I will continue to think this about this problem, but I'm not seeing any
solution I like so far.

Thanks,
David
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Aha, os::PlatformMonitor is just the cross-platform condition variable, no strings attached!
I think it is a better solution. TBH, I don't like 'ignore_overflow'. it's a hack solution. let's save it as a back-up solution.

We still have 2 week before phase-2 rampdown. Let me also take a look how JFR handle this case. It is said JFR also has an asynchronous buffer too.

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On 13/07/2021 4:10 pm, Xin Liu wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 22:12:23 GMT, Xin Liu <xliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

This patch solved the sempahore overflow issue with errno ERANGE or EOVERFLOW.
Previously, we have asymmetric p/v operations for semaphore _sem. Each iteration
only decrements _sem 1 but dequeues N messages. If logging threads keep preempting
async logging thread, it may cause the value of _sem accumulates until overflow!

The patch corrects the value of _sem after write(). n messages are dequeued/processed.
We need to invoke _sem.wait() max(n-1, 1) time. This ensures that each iteration
decrements n instead of 1.

Xin Liu has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

Refactor code with API change.

Semaphore::signal returns a boolean value to indicate it's succeed or not.

Aha, os::PlatformMonitor is just the cross-platform condition variable, no strings attached!
I think it is a better solution. TBH, I don't like 'ignore_overflow'. it's a hack solution. let's save it as a back-up solution.

We still have 2 week before phase-2 rampdown. Let me also take a look how JFR handle this case. It is said JFR also has an asynchronous buffer too.

JDK 17 will enter Rampdown Phase Two this Thursday, 15 July,
at 15:00 UTC. This needs to be handled promptly.

Thanks,
David

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On 13/07/2021 4:10 pm, Xin Liu wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 22:12:23 GMT, Xin Liu <xliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

This patch solved the sempahore overflow issue with errno ERANGE or EOVERFLOW.
Previously, we have asymmetric p/v operations for semaphore _sem. Each iteration
only decrements _sem 1 but dequeues N messages. If logging threads keep preempting
async logging thread, it may cause the value of _sem accumulates until overflow!

The patch corrects the value of _sem after write(). n messages are dequeued/processed.
We need to invoke _sem.wait() max(n-1, 1) time. This ensures that each iteration
decrements n instead of 1.

Xin Liu has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

Refactor code with API change.

Semaphore::signal returns a boolean value to indicate it's succeed or not.

Aha, os::PlatformMonitor is just the cross-platform condition variable, no strings attached!
I think it is a better solution. TBH, I don't like 'ignore_overflow'. it's a hack solution. let's save it as a back-up solution.

We still have 2 week before phase-2 rampdown. Let me also take a look how JFR handle this case. It is said JFR also has an asynchronous buffer too.

JDK 17 will enter Rampdown Phase Two this Thursday, 15 July,
at 15:00 UTC. This needs to be handled promptly.

Thanks,
David

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okay. copy that. I will send out a new revision soon.

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Sorry this isn't right at all.

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// _lock(1) denotes a critional region.
Semaphore _lock;
// _sem is a semaphore whose value denotes how many messages have been enqueued.
// It decreases in AsyncLogWriter::run()
Semaphore _sem;
Semaphore _flush_sem;

os::PlatformMonitor _cv;
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No this isn't what you need. The _lock is the PlatformMonitor. You lock/unlock in AsyncLogLocker for the critical regions, and then use the wait/notify operations for the coordination.

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you mean I should use os::PlatformMonitor _lock as a combination of mutux and cv, right?


while (!_data_available) {
_lock.signal();
_cv.wait(0/* no timeout */);
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You can't call wait() on an unlocked monitor - that's not how monitors are used.

Second attempt. This patch also removed semaphore-based lock because
PlatformMonitor can also be used as a Mutex lock.
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navyxliu commented Jul 13, 2021

hi, @dholmes-ora @pchilano,

Thank you for letting me know os::PlatformMonitor. I used to think Monitor is a higher-level synchronization construct than Semaphore. it turns out that os::PlatformMonitor is as low-level as semaphore. Lesson learned.

Could you take a look at this change and see if I use it correctly?

thanks,
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Hi Xin,

This looks good. I'll run it through our testing.

I'll also try to get @pchilano to review it.

Thanks,
David

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Hi Xin,

Looks good to me too.
The only small suggestion is that you could do the pop_all() and _stats.iterate when coming out of wait() since you are already holding the monitor, and then pass the logs to write(). Either way is fine though.

Thanks,
Patricio

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The only small suggestion is that you could do the pop_all() and _stats.iterate when coming out of wait() since you are already holding the monitor, and then pass the logs to write(). Either way is fine though.

Thanks for reviewing. I see what you mean. I take a note on that. yes, we may gain something if we merge two critical areas.
I will take it as a follow-up.

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Hi, Reviewers,

Thanks a lot. I append a comment to explain why we choose PlatformMonitor over Semaphore. Meanwhile, I defer performance-wise change. Please let me know the results of test. I hope we can make it to jdk17 safely before the window is close.

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Mailing list message from David Holmes on hotspot-runtime-dev:

On 14/07/2021 11:32 am, Xin Liu wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:18:17 GMT, Patricio Chilano Mateo <pchilanomate at openjdk.org> wrote:

The only small suggestion is that you could do the pop_all() and _stats.iterate when coming out of wait() since you are already holding the monitor, and then pass the logs to write(). Either way is fine though.

Thanks for reviewing. I see what you mean. I take a note on that. yes, we may gain something if we merge two critical areas.
I will take it as a follow-up.

I think it is cleaner as-is.

Testing tiers 1-3 passed with no problems, so I think this can be
integrated now.

Thanks,
David

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Mailing list message from David Holmes on hotspot-runtime-dev:

On 14/07/2021 11:32 am, Xin Liu wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:18:17 GMT, Patricio Chilano Mateo <pchilanomate at openjdk.org> wrote:

The only small suggestion is that you could do the pop_all() and _stats.iterate when coming out of wait() since you are already holding the monitor, and then pass the logs to write(). Either way is fine though.

Thanks for reviewing. I see what you mean. I take a note on that. yes, we may gain something if we merge two critical areas.
I will take it as a follow-up.

I think it is cleaner as-is.

Testing tiers 1-3 passed with no problems, so I think this can be
integrated now.

Thanks,
David

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