RFR: 8347408: Create an internal method handle adapter for system calls with errno [v9]

Per Minborg pminborg at openjdk.org
Wed Jan 15 11:53:10 UTC 2025


> Going forward, converting older JDK code to use the relatively new FFM API requires system calls that can provide `errno` and the likes to explicitly allocate a MemorySegment to capture potential error states. This can lead to negative performance implications if not designed carefully and also introduces unnecessary code complexity.
> 
> Hence, this PR proposes to add a _JDK internal_ method handle adapter that can be used to handle system calls with `errno`, `GetLastError`, and `WSAGetLastError`.
> 
> It currently relies on a thread-local cache of MemorySegments to allide allocations. If, in the future, a more efficient thread-associated allocation scheme becomes available, we could easily migrate to that one.
> 
> Here are some benchmarks:
> 
> 
> Benchmark                                        Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
> CaptureStateUtilBench.explicitAllocationFail     avgt   30  43.942 ? 2.425  ns/op
> CaptureStateUtilBench.explicitAllocationSuccess  avgt   30  23.606 ? 0.837  ns/op
> CaptureStateUtilBench.threadLocalFail            avgt   30  15.660 ? 0.073  ns/op
> CaptureStateUtilBench.threadLocalReuseSuccess    avgt   30  12.712 ? 0.407  ns/op
> 
> 
> Explicit allocation:
> 
>         try (var arena = Arena.ofConfined()) {
>             return (int) HANDLE.invoke(arena.allocate(4), 0, 0);
>         }
> 
> 
> Thread Local (tl):
> 
>         return (int) ADAPTED_HANDLE.invoke(arena.allocate(4), 0, 0);
> 
> 
> The graph below shows the difference in latency for a successful call:
> 
> ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fb0051b7-a16c-4636-bf5c-27c01a45c8fe)
> 
> This is a ~2x improvement on the happy path.
> 
> 
> Tested and passed tiers 1-3.

Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  Refactor

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22391/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22391/files/2ad696aa..57b322a1

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=22391&range=08
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=22391&range=07-08

  Stats: 730 lines in 4 files changed: 163 ins; 504 del; 63 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22391.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/22391/head:pull/22391

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22391


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