review(XS): 7085279: C1 overflows code buffer with VerifyOops and CompressedOops

[Tom Rodriguez]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Igor Veresov wrote:

> This happens during emission of LIR_OpAllocObj. C1 assumes that a LIR instruction will fit into 1K but in this case it's not true because the allocation code is pretty large by itself and oop verfication adds an order of magnitude more of additional code. 
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> I bumped up the size of the code per LIR operation to 2K. And also increased the size of the NMethodSizeLimit to accommodate all the verification code emitted. 

The 2K limit is fine.  I have some memory that the NMethodSizeLimit may be set at 32K because of the reach of branches on some platform.  I can't remember for sure though.

tom

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> Thanks,
> igor
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