RFR: 8311302: Allow for jlinking a custom runtime without packaged modules being present [v19]
Severin Gehwolf
sgehwolf at openjdk.org
Thu Mar 14 14:11:08 UTC 2024
> Please review this patch which adds a jlink mode to the JDK which doesn't need the packaged modules being present. A.k.a run-time image based jlink. Fundamentally this patch adds an option to use `jlink` even though your JDK install might not come with the packaged modules (directory `jmods`). This is particularly useful to further reduce the size of a jlinked runtime. After the removal of the concept of a JRE, a common distribution mechanism is still the full JDK with all modules and packaged modules. However, packaged modules can incur an additional size tax. For example in a container scenario it could be useful to have a base JDK container including all modules, but without also delivering the packaged modules. This comes at a size advantage of `~25%`. Such a base JDK container could then be used to `jlink` application specific runtimes, further reducing the size of the application runtime image (App + JDK runtime; as a single image *or* separate bundles, depending on the app b
eing modularized).
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> The basic design of this approach is to add a jlink plugin for tracking non-class and non-resource files of a JDK install. I.e. files which aren't present in the jimage (`lib/modules`). This enables producing a `JRTArchive` class which has all the info of what constitutes the final jlinked runtime.
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> Basic usage example:
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> $ diff -u <(./bin/java --list-modules --limit-modules java.se) <(../linux-x86_64-server-release/images/jdk/bin/java --list-modules --limit-modules java.se)
> $ diff -u <(./bin/java --list-modules --limit-modules jdk.jlink) <(../linux-x86_64-server-release/images/jdk/bin/java --list-modules --limit-modules jdk.jlink)
> $ ls ../linux-x86_64-server-release/images/jdk/jmods
> java.base.jmod java.net.http.jmod java.sql.rowset.jmod jdk.crypto.ec.jmod jdk.internal.opt.jmod jdk.jdi.jmod jdk.management.agent.jmod jdk.security.auth.jmod
> java.compiler.jmod java.prefs.jmod java.transaction.xa.jmod jdk.dynalink.jmod jdk.internal.vm.ci.jmod jdk.jdwp.agent.jmod jdk.management.jfr.jmod jdk.security.jgss.jmod
> java.datatransfer.jmod java.rmi.jmod java.xml.crypto.jmod jdk.editpad.jmod jdk.internal.vm.compiler.jmod jdk.jfr.jmod jdk.management.jmod jdk.unsupported.desktop.jmod
> java.desktop.jmod java.scripting.jmod java.xml.jmod jdk.hotspot.agent.jmod jdk.internal.vm.compiler.manage...
Severin Gehwolf has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 85 commits:
- Remove no longer needed plugin options
- Restore GenerateJLIClassesPluginTest.java
- Update some comments
- Add copyright header/comments
- Ensure build-only plugin isn't propagated to the final image
- Remove extraneous comment
- Fix comment
- Remove extraneous empty line
- Further reduce exports
- Remove unneded export
- ... and 75 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/49ce85fa...5404d4e8
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14787/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=14787&range=18
Stats: 3534 lines in 38 files changed: 3400 ins; 110 del; 24 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14787.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/14787/head:pull/14787
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14787
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