RFR: 8347408: Create an internal method handle adapter for system calls with errno [v10]
Maurizio Cimadamore
mcimadamore at openjdk.org
Fri May 9 14:49:54 UTC 2025
On Thu, 8 May 2025 10:50:55 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> As we advance, 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.
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>> Hence, this PR proposes adding a JDK internal method handle adapter that can be used to handle system calls with `errno`, `GetLastError`, and `WSAGetLastError`.
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>> It relies on an efficient carrier-thread-local cache of memory regions to allide allocations.
>
> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
>
> - Revert more incidental changes
> - Revert incidental change
Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Reviewer).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25043#pullrequestreview-2828633505
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