Integrated: 8254693: Add Panama feature to pass heap segments to native code
Jorn Vernee
jvernee at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 14 11:22:45 UTC 2023
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:19:17 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Add the ability to pass heap segments to native code. This requires using `Linker.Option.critical(true)` as a linker option. It has the same limitations as normal critical calls, namely: upcalls into Java are not allowed, and the native function should return relatively quickly. Heap segments are exposed to native code through temporary native addresses that are valid for the duration of the native call.
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> The motivation for this is supporting existing Java array-based APIs that might have to pass multi-megabyte size arrays to native code, and are current relying on Get-/ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical from JNI. Where making a copy of the array would be overly prohibitive.
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> Components of this patch:
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> - New binding operator `SegmentBase`, which gets the base object of a `MemorySegment`.
> - Rename `UnboxAddress` to `SegmentOffset`. Add flag to specify whether processing heap segments should be allowed.
> - `CallArranger` impls use new binding operators when `Linker.Option.critical(/* allowHeap= */ true)` is specified.
> - `NativeMethodHandle`/`NativeEntryPoint` allow `Object` in their signatures.
> - The object/oop + offset is exposed as temporary address to native code.
> - Since we stay in the `_thread_in_Java` state, we can safely expose the oops passed to the downcall stub to native code, without needing GCLocker. These oops are valid until we poll for safepoint, which we never do (invoking pure native code).
> - Only x64 and AArch64 for now.
> - I've refactored `ArgumentShuffle` in the C++ code to no longer rely on callbacks to get the set of source and destination registers (using `CallingConventionClosure`), but instead just rely on 2 equal size arrays with source and destination registers. This allows filtering the input java registers before passing them to `ArgumentShuffle`, which is required to filter out registers holding segment offsets. Replacing placeholder registers is also done as a separate pre-processing step now. See changes in: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/16201/commits/d2b40f1117d63cc6d74e377bf88cdcf6d15ff866
> - I've factored out `DowncallStubGenerator` in the x64 and AArch64 code to use a common `DowncallLinker::StubGenerator`.
> - Fallback linker is also supported using JNI's `GetPrimitiveArrayCritical`/`ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical`
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> Aside: fixed existing issue with `DowncallLinker` not properly acquiring segments in interpreted mode.
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> Numbers for the included benchmark on my machine are:
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> Benchmark (size) Mode Cnt ...
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: 9c982707
Author: Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/9c98270737cd2019f230e9359bb9298f8df2ca35
Stats: 2711 lines in 74 files changed: 1722 ins; 692 del; 297 mod
8254693: Add Panama feature to pass heap segments to native code
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, lucy, vlivanov
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16201
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