Re: Can't allocate large char array in JNI

From:
CD1 <cristiandeives@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:07:08 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<bcd5f084-a4ef-47d2-a101-cc552b56098f@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
Hi Gordon,

Sorry for the lack of details. Here's the full code:

// start here

jobject new0(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls) {
    jmethodID constructor_mid = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, cls,
"<init>", "()V");
    if (constructor_mid == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }
    return (*env)->NewObject(env, cls, constructor_mid);
}

void set_int(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls, jobject obj,
        char *field_name, jint value) {
    jfieldID int_fid = (*env)->GetFieldID(env, cls, field_name, "I");
    if (int_fid == NULL) {
        return;
    }
    (*env)->SetIntField(env, obj, int_fid, value);
}

void set_char_array(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls, jobject obj,
        char *field_name, jchar *value, int length) {
    jfieldID char_array_fid = (*env)->GetFieldID(env, cls, field_name,
"[C");
    if (char_array_fid == NULL) {
        return;
    }
    jcharArray jchar_array = (*env)->NewCharArray(env, length);
    if (jchar_array == NULL) {
        return;
    }
    (*env)->SetCharArrayRegion(env, jchar_array, 0, length, value);
    (*env)->ExceptionDescribe(env);
    (*env)->SetObjectField(env, obj, char_array_fid, jchar_array);
}

JNIEXPORT jobject JNICALL Java_OpenCv_loadImage(JNIEnv *env, jclass
jclazz,
        jstring jfilePath) {
    const char *file_path = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, jfilePath,
NULL);
    IplImage *cv_image = cvLoadImage(file_path, CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);
    (*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, jfilePath, file_path);
    if (cv_image == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }
    jclass iplimage_cls = (*env)->FindClass(env, "IplImage");
    if (iplimage_cls == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }
    jobject jiplimage = new0(env, iplimage_cls);
    if (jiplimage == NULL) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage,
            "nChannels", (jint) cv_image->nChannels);
    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "depth", (jint) cv_image-

depth);

    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "width", (jint) cv_image-

width);

    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "height", (jint) cv_image-

height);

    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_char_array(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "imageData",
            (jchar *) cv_image->imageData, cv_image->imageSize);
    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage,
            "dataOrder", (jint) cv_image->dataOrder);
    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "origin", (jint) cv_image-

origin);

    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage,
            "widthStep", (jint) cv_image->widthStep);
    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage,
            "imageSize", (jint) cv_image->imageSize);
    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    set_char_array(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "imageDataOrigin",
            (jchar *) cv_image->imageDataOrigin,
            cv_image->width * cv_image->height * cv_image->nChannels);
    set_int(env, iplimage_cls, jiplimage, "align", (jint) cv_image-

align);

    if ((*env)->ExceptionCheck(env)) {
        return NULL;
    }
    cvReleaseImage(&cv_image);
    return jiplimage;
}

// end here

The jchar *value comes from the object allocated by the library
OpenCV, ant its size is the imageSize field of the IplImage struct.

When I run this function passing a small image, it always works; with
a medium image, it works sometimes (I run once and it works, I run
again and it doesn't!); but with a large image (specifically,
imageSize = 1434600), it never worked: the JVM crashes right on the
SetCharArrayRegion call, so the ExceptionDescribe in the line below is
never reached. So, based on this randomness I suppose the problem is
memory related, I don't know ;/

The header of the JVM crash log is this:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002ae7f37b1cc7, pid=16200, tid=1076017488
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (10.0-b22 mixed mode
linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.6+0x75cc7] memcpy+0x3f7
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

The purpose of this function, by the way, is to convert a C structure
(IplImage) to a Java object with the same attributes so it can be
parsed on the Java side.

Thanks again!

On Apr 21, 4:12 am, Gordon Beaton <n....@for.email> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:07:48 -0700 (PDT), CD1 wrote:

My code is like this:


Code that's "like" yours doesn't help anyone debug your real code.

// the variables are JNIEnv *env, int length, jchar *value, jmethodID
char_array_fid

jcharArray jchar_array = (*env)->NewCharArray(env, length);
if (jchar_array == NULL) {
    return;
}
(*env)->SetCharArrayRegion(env, jchar_array, 0, length, value); // !!!
(*env)->SetObjectField(env, obj, char_array_fid, jchar_array);

By using printfs, I've found out the JVM crashes when it calls the
function SetCharArrayRegion, but only if the length is greater than
718832. And if I modify the length value to something like 1000, this
exact code works fine.

Any help would be appreciated :)


Try posting a compilable example or at least a complete function. The
problem is usually in the parts you didn't post.

How many jchars are in the "jchar *value" array that you pass to
SetCharArrayRegion? Perhaps more importantly, how did you allocate and
initialize it?

What does (*env)->ExceptionOccurred(env) (and ExceptionDescribe()) say
after the call to SetCharArrayRegion()? After SetObjectField()?

/gordon

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