RFR: 8268829: Provide an optimized way to walk the stack with Class object only [v11]
Mandy Chung
mchung at openjdk.org
Thu Sep 7 18:22:40 UTC 2023
> 8268829: Provide an optimized way to walk the stack with Class object only
>
> `StackWalker::walk` creates one `StackFrame` per frame and the current implementation
> allocates one `StackFrameInfo` and one `MemberName` objects per frame. Some frameworks
> like logging may only interest in the Class object but not the method name nor the BCI,
> for example, filters out its implementation classes to find the caller class. It's
> similar to `StackWalker::getCallerClass` but allows a predicate to filter out the element.
>
> This PR proposes to add `Option::DROP_METHOD_INFO` enum that requests to drop the method information. If no method information is needed, a `StackWalker` with `DROP_METHOD_INFO`
> can be used instead and such stack walker will save the overhead of extracting the method information
> and the memory used for the stack walking.
>
> New factory methods to take a parameter to specify the kind of stack walker to be created are defined.
> This provides a simple way for existing code, for example logging frameworks, to take advantage of
> this enhancement with the least change as it can keep the existing function for traversing
> `StackFrame`s.
>
> For example: to find the first caller filtering a known list of implementation class,
> existing code can create a stack walker instance with `DROP_METHOD_INFO` option:
>
>
> StackWalker walker = StackWalker.getInstance(Option.DROP_METHOD_INFO, Option.RETAIN_CLASS_REFERENCE);
> Optional<Class<?>> callerClass = walker.walk(s ->
> s.map(StackFrame::getDeclaringClass)
> .filter(Predicate.not(implClasses::contains))
> .findFirst());
>
>
> If method information is accessed on the `StackFrame`s produced by this stack walker such as
> `StackFrame::getMethodName`, then `UnsupportedOperationException` will be thrown.
>
> #### Javadoc & specdiff
>
> https://cr.openjdk.org/~mchung/api/java.base/java/lang/StackWalker.html
> https://cr.openjdk.org/~mchung/jdk22/specdiff/overview-summary.html
>
> #### Alternatives Considered
> One alternative is to provide a new API:
> `<T> T walkClass(Function<? super Stream<Class<?>, ? extends T> function)`
>
> In this case, the caller would need to pass a function that takes a stream
> of `Class` object instead of `StackFrame`. Existing code would have to
> modify calls to the `walk` method to `walkClass` and the function body.
>
> ### Implementation Details
>
> A `StackWalker` configured with `DROP_METHOD_INFO` option creates `ClassFrameInfo[]`
> buffer that is filled by the VM during stack walking. `Sta...
Mandy Chung has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
review feedback
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15370/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15370/files/a623b9dc..0e6abc42
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=15370&range=10
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=15370&range=09-10
Stats: 22 lines in 3 files changed: 21 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15370.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/15370/head:pull/15370
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15370
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