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Welcome to the TSAN Project!

The goal of this Project is to explore and incubate a Thread SANitizing (TSAN) feature that could be integrated into the HotSpot JVM and the JVM Tool Interface (JVM TI).  This includes working, evaluating, and incubating a Thread Sanitizer implementation for Java.

The rest of this page will provide basic information for downloading, building, and testing Java TSAN.

Note: Java TSAN is not working yet and will not be able to provide any data race information yet. The information below is really how to build/test for developers and testers:

Prerequistes

Java TSAN is dependent on the C/C++ ThreadSanitizer implementation for GCC. Developers and users need to ensure that libtsan.so is available. e.g.:

sudo apt install libgcc-8-dev

ldconfig -p | grep libtsan

It should print the path to libtsan.so.

Building

Java TSAN implementation is in the "tsan" branch in the Mercurial repository. Developers need to clone this branch:

hg clone --branch tsan http://hg.openjdk.java.net/tsan/dev jdk-tsan

TODO: since TSAN is not even integrated yet, the JDK you just branched is the mainline.

Java TSAN exists as a JVM feature "tsan", which is enabled by default on the "tsan" branch in the repository. It can be disabled with the configure flag "--with-jvm-features=-tsan".

Running

Note: the method of including the TSAN runtime in the JVM is not finalized and could change in the future.

Run Java with TSAN enabled:

./images/jdk/bin/java -XX:+ThreadSanitizer

Testing

The tests for TSAN are at test/hotspot/jtreg/tsan/

make jdk-image test-image

make test TEST="hotspot/jtreg/tsan"

Resources

• TSAN Project
• TSAN JEP proposal
• Repositories
• Mailing list: tsan-dev