Experimental patches for unsafe cleanup <was> Re: The s.m.Unsafe representation in hotspot and method registration
Paul Sandoz
paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Tue Mar 25 17:05:04 UTC 2014
On Mar 25, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:
> (Adding hotspot-runtime-dev since some changes are in hotspot code).
>
>
> On 25 mar 2014, at 14:20, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have abandoned the HSX model. From JDK 8 one version of Hotspot will be tied to one version of the JDK. This looks like old code that has not been cleaned up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, yes, looks like we can clean this up and also remove the deprecated methods at the same time.
>>>
>>
>> Here are some preliminary webrevs to clean up unsafe and also remove all old, deprecated and monitor-related methods:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/jdk-unsafe-cleanup/webrev/jdk.patch
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/hotspot-unsafe-cleanup/webrev/
>>
>> Passes all tests i have thrown at it locally.
>>
>> There is some additional clean up that could be done to remove prefetch read/write intrinsics hooked up to older versions of Unsafe:
>>
>> do_intrinsic(_prefetchRead, sun_misc_Unsafe, prefetchRead_name, prefetch_signature, F_RN) \
>> do_name( prefetchRead_name, "prefetchRead") \
>> do_intrinsic(_prefetchWrite, sun_misc_Unsafe, prefetchWrite_name, prefetch_signature, F_RN) \
>> do_name( prefetchWrite_name, "prefetchWrite") \
>> do_intrinsic(_prefetchReadStatic, sun_misc_Unsafe, prefetchReadStatic_name, prefetch_signature, F_SN) \
>> do_name( prefetchReadStatic_name, "prefetchReadStatic") \
>> do_intrinsic(_prefetchWriteStatic, sun_misc_Unsafe, prefetchWriteStatic_name, prefetch_signature, F_SN) \
>> do_name( prefetchWriteStatic_name, "prefetchWriteStatic") \
>>
>> That will also require updates in various other files. I presume these prefetch methods are never used throughout the runtime?
>>
Here is that removal:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/hotspot-unsafe-prefetch-cleanup/webrev/
Again all tests i threw at it passed.
Paul.
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