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Small changes to ShenandoahAsserts and friends to improve fault-tolerance and usefulnes:

  • In assert_correct, we now check the forwarding pointer first before extracting the narrowKlass from it. The forwarding pointer may be invalid. To do this, the forwarding-pointer-checking-block was moved up to before Klass* checks. We also use SafeFetch-based checks for some added safety.
  • In assert_correct, we test the narrowKlass before decoding it. Otherwise, if its 0, we'd assert, if garbage, the resulting Klass* would be garbage.
  • In print_failure, we now check pointers for readability before handing them to print_obj
  • In print_obj, we now print the extracted narrowKlass, too (useful on Lilliput with its terse ids)
  • In print_obj, we print a small hex dump of the header (32bytes). With little cost we get a glance at the raw header and the first members.
  • In print_obj, we print to a single stringStream now and use auto indentation. Avoids having to deal with indentation and newlines manually and having to pay for four stringStreams.
  • In assert_correct, I raised the print level for some of the klass-related assertions to safe_oop since the oop, since the hardened version of print_obj now avoids tripping over invalid Klass*

Tests: I manually tested the patch with a number of manually broken oops of various flavours.

Example output, invalid forwardee:

Referenced from:
  no interior location recorded (probably a plain heap scan, or detached oop)

Object:
  0x00000007cd800000 - nk 1798104 klass 0x00000000921b6fd8 [Ljava.lang.Object;

        allocated after mark start
        after update watermark
        marked strong
        marked weak
    not in collection set
    mark:  marked(0xdeaddeaddeaddeaf)
    region: | 3812|R  |Y|BTE    7cd800000,    7cd920bf8,    7cdc00000|TAMS    7cd800000|UWM    7cd800000|U  1154K|T     0B|G     0B|S  1154K|L     0B|CP   0

  0x00000007cd800000:   deaddeaddeaddeaf 00000a96001b6fd8 f9b005cff9b0054d f9b006d3f9b00651   .........o......M.......Q.......
  0x00000007cd800020:   f9b00797f9b00755 f9b00992f9b0087d f9b009a0f9b00999 f9b009a7f9b0098e   U.......}.......................

Forwardee:
  0xdeaddeaddeaddeac - safe print, no details

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@tstuefe tstuefe changed the title assert_correct JDK-8361712: Improve ShenandoahAsserts printing Jul 10, 2025
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This looks really useful! I have only two comments/questions.

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const_address loc = cast_from_oop<const_address>(obj);
os::print_hex_dump(&ss, loc, loc + 64, 4, true, 32, loc);
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Does this need to check for heap-end boundary? Otherwise it may crash trying to print bytes from after the heap, which may not be mapped?

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No, that function is safe to use on any memory. It uses SafeFetch and prints dots for unreadable parts.

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class StreamIndentor {
NONCOPYABLE(StreamIndentor);

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StreamIndentor(outputStream* os, int indentation) :
StreamIndentor(outputStream* os, int indentation = 2) :
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Why do we need/want a default value here?

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Ease of use, and less code. And it softly enforces 2 as a standard.

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