[Vm-dev] Reproducible Cog crash from image startup
stephane ducasse
stephane.ducasse at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 08:31:04 UTC 2012
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> Any ideas?
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> The image overflows the weakRoots table in scanning stack pages. The weakRoots table registers weak objects for scanning at the end of a GC. It is, unfortunately, fixed size (~2600 entries), and there are lots of WeakMessageSends and WeakAnnouncementSubscriptions on the stack.
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> I found this using aDebug VM with assert enabled (i.e. compiled with NDEBUG /not/ defined). I increased the table size to 3000 then 6000 before finding it no longer crashed with a weakRoots table size of 12000.
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> a) Looks like weakRoots' size should be configurable either via a start-up flag or an image header constant (with e.g. vmParameter accessors).
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> b) overflowing the weakRoots table (and possibly other tables) should probably cause the VM to abort with a useful error message.
Eliot
do you think that it can be due to heavy use of weak announcements that are not garbage collected?
Stef
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