RFR: 6879063: SA should use hsdis for disassembly

[Yumin Qi]

Sure.

Thanks
Yumin

On 10/17/2012 12:17 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> This change broke the usage of previously built versions of hsdis.  I filed a bug for it:
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> 8000489: older builds of hsdis don't work anymore after 6879063
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> Yumin, I assigned the bug to you.  Could you please take care of it?
>
> -- Chris
>
> On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Yumin Qi<yumin.qi at oracle.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi, all
>>
>>    Can I have you code review of
>>    6879063: SA should use hsdis for disassembly
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>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~minqi/6879063
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>>    The SA has Java based disassemblers for x86 and sparc but amd64.  Instead of porting to amd64 we should switch over to using hsdis for it like the JVM does.  This requires a new entry point into hsdis, decode_instructions_virtual, which separates the address of the code being disassembled from the buffer containing the code.  The existing uses of decode_instructions have been updated to use the new interface and SA Disassembler has Java native methods that call into hsdis and call back up to Java to perform the disassembly. Also changed makefile for hsdis build for both(i386/amd64).
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>>    All the old disassembler logic was deleted since it's incompatible with the new disassembly interface. Also deleted are dbx based SA interface and few other dead files.
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>>    Tested by dumping full assembly from core files.
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>>    Reviewed-by:
>>    Contributed-by: Tom R (never)
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>>    Thanks
>>    Yumin Qi
>>