RFR: 8311302: Allow for jlinking a custom runtime without packaged modules being present [v24]
Severin Gehwolf
sgehwolf at openjdk.org
Thu Apr 4 11:12:43 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 100 commits:
- Fix coment
- Fix comment
- Fix typo
- Revert some now unneded build changes
- Follow build tools naming convention
- Update to new build-time approach with delta in lib
- Make generation of fs_$module_files unconditional
- Merge branch 'master' into jdk-8311302-jmodless-link
- Fix copyright year
- Move CreateLinkableRuntimePlugin to build folder
Keep runtime link supporting classes in package
jdk.tools.jlink.internal.runtimelink
- ... and 90 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/6ae1cf12...ce04f42a
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14787/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=14787&range=23
Stats: 3384 lines in 36 files changed: 3247 ins; 106 del; 31 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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