Maxime crashes when running with VMA

[nkushman]

Hello,

I've compiled and run Maxine with the docker image, following the instructions here: https://maxine-vm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.html#developing-using-a-docker-container

mx helloworld runs successfully:

~/maxine-src/maxine# mx helloworld                                                
Hello World! 

I then compile the VMA image using the command from here: https://maxine-vm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Virtual-Machine-Level-Analysis.html#building-handlers-into-the-boot-image

mx --Jp @-Dmax.vma.handler.class=com.oracle.max.vm.ext.vma.handlers.store.sync.h.SyncStoreVMAdviceHandler image @vma-t1x

(fixing the typo in the documentation to change handler --> handlers)

When I run:

mx helloworld

The VM crashes generating the below stack trace. It seems that either there's a problem with the code or the documentation, but I'm not sure which:
error.txt

[kotselidis]

Hi Nate,

AFAIK the VMA configuration options have not been thoroughly tested after MaxineVM v2.1.
I think that it must have been working at Maxine v2.0 (the version which those documents are based on) but probably somewhere in the process they must have broken.

@zakkak I recall you did some work on VMA, any recall?

[nkushman]

I'm having trouble building v2.0. Do you know what version/tag of the mx repo I should be using with v2.0 of Maxine?

Whenever I run mx build I get the error:
"no primary suite found"
This is because there's no mx.maxine directory. I tried playing around by renaming the directory, and renaming commands.py to suite.py, etc. but I think the version of mx I'm using is probably just not compatible.

I tried syncing mx to version/tag: 5.116.0 (which is was the most recent version as of the v2.0.0 Maxine release date) but that didn't seem to help either.

Any suggestions @kotselidis ?

[zakkak]

@zakkak I recall you did some work on VMA, any recall?

@kotselidis I don't recall working on the VMA TBH (just touching some shared code maybe).

I'm having trouble building v2.0. Do you know what version/tag of the mx repo I should be using with v2.0 of Maxine?

@nkushman You will need the mx from https://github.com/beehive-lab/Maxine-Graal for that.