Review request for 4917309 and 6864003

[Paul Hohensee]

Can't remove it unless it's fixed in jdk6 as well as 7.  Also, one of 
these days we'll
get around to shipping current hotspot in jdk5 and maybe 1.4.2.  How 
would these
be affected?

paul

Keith McGuigan wrote:
>
> I would prefer that we avoid requiring synchronous pushes (so I guess 
> I think we should leave that parameter in for now).
>
> If anything, maybe file a low-priority RFE to remove that parameter 
> later?
>
> -- 
> - Keith
>
> Mandy Chung wrote:
>> David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>>> Hi Mandy,
>>>
>>>  661 JVM_ENTRY(jclass, JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader(JNIEnv* env,
>>>  662                                               const char* name,
>>>  663                                               jboolean 
>>> throwError))
>>>
>>> Can't we now drop the throwError parameter altogether?
>>>
>> Yes, I could.  I agree it doesn't need this throwError parameter.   I 
>> decide to leave it since it helps to avoid the synchronized pushes.  
>> JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader is already in a promoted build.   I can 
>> push the JDK fix and HotSpot fix at the same time.  Note that the JDK 
>> fix and HotSpot fix are pushed and integrated in two different gates 
>> and at different time.
>>
>> If I modify the signature, I would have to push the HS fix first (say 
>> b68).  Wait until b68 is promoted, then I can push the JDK fix in b70.
>>
>> If you strongly feel that I should drop the throwError parameter, I 
>> could make the change.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mandy
>>
>>> Pity we can't make a similar fix to the extensions loader ...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David
>>>
>>> Mandy Chung said the following on 07/24/09 09:53:
>>>> This review request is for both the HotSpot runtime and the core 
>>>> libs teams.
>>>>
>>>> Fixed 4917309: (cl) Reduce internal usage of 
>>>> ClassNotFoundExceptions during class-loading
>>>> Fixed 6864003: Modify JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader to return null if 
>>>> class not found
>>>>
>>>> Summary:
>>>>  o Fix java.lang.ClassLoader to use the new VM entry point
>>>>    JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader for load a system class from
>>>>    the bootstrap classloader that will reduce the number
>>>>    of ClassNotFoundException objects thrown by the application
>>>>    class loader by 50%.  The remaining half of the 
>>>> ClassNotFoundException
>>>>    objects are thrown by the extension class loader which is the 
>>>> parent
>>>>    of the application class loader.
>>>>  o ClassLoader.loadClass and ClassLoader.findSystemClass will
>>>>    throw ClassNotFoundException as they are specified.
>>>>  o JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader is currently not used (going to
>>>>    used by the java launcher see 6864028). There is no issue
>>>>    of changing it to return null instead of throwing CNFE.
>>>>
>>>> Webrev:
>>>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/4917309/hotspot-webrev/
>>>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/4917309/jdk-webrev/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Mandy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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