RFR(M): 8006683: Add WhiteBox API to testing of compiler

[Remi Forax]

On 01/31/2013 01:56 PM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> Rémi
>
> Your suggestions sounds good.
> I'll file separate RFE for it.
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Ignatyev

thanks Igor.

Rémi

>
> On 01/31/2013 12:11 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
>> On 01/30/2013 08:53 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>>> Igor,
>>>
>>> I agree with Mikael to give different name to test.
>>>
>>> Calls to get info in VM looks fine to me. Could you also add call to
>>> get compilation level code->comp_level() of compiled code?
>>>
>>> Do we plan to add more WB tests later as separate *.java tests or we
>>> keep only one  CompilerWhiteBoxTest.java and update it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vladimir
>>
>> Hi all,
>> may I suggest to add several more methods that I would like to have when
>> testing runtimes of languages based on the VM.
>>
>> boolean setForceInlineMethod(Method, boolean)
>>    which should be equivalent to put @ForceInline on a method.
>>
>> enqueueMethodForCompilation(Method method)
>>    enqueue a method even if threshold is not reached
>>    (avoid to have a constant in the test that must be updated when the
>> compile threshold of Hotspot will change)
>>
>> void clearMetaDataObject(Method method)
>>    be sure that we are in fresh state before calling a method.
>>    (maybe deoptimizeMethod has this side effect ?)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Rémi
>>
>>>
>>> On 1/29/13 12:31 PM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please review the patch
>>>>
>>>> 1. added new functions to WhiteBox:
>>>>    public native void    deoptimizeAll();
>>>>    public native boolean isMethodCompiled(Method method);
>>>>    public native boolean isMethodCompilable(Method method);
>>>>    public native boolean isMethodQueuedForCompilation(Method method);
>>>>    public native int     deoptimizeMethod(Method method);
>>>>    public native boolean setDontInlineMethod(Method method, boolean
>>>> value);
>>>>    public native int     getCompileQueuesSize();
>>>>
>>>> 2. added test 'test/compiler/WBApiTest.java' which exercises these
>>>> functions
>>>>
>>>> 3. added result type to macro WB_METHOD_DECLARE
>>>>
>>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8006683/webrev.00/
>>