RFR: 8340733: Add scope for relaxing constraint on JavaCalls from CompilerThread

Vladimir Kozlov kvn at openjdk.org
Tue Oct 1 16:04:37 UTC 2024


On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:57:58 GMT, Tomáš Zezula <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> [JDK-8318694](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8318694) limited the ability for JVMCI CompilerThreads to make Java upcalls. This is to mitigate against deadlock when an upcall does class loading. Class loading can easily create deadlock situations in -Xcomp or -Xbatch mode.
> 
> However, for Truffle, upcalls are unavoidable if Truffle partial evaluation occurs as part of JIT compilation inlining. This occurs when the Graal inliner sees a constant Truffle AST node which allows a Truffle-specific inlining extension to perform Truffle partial evaluation (PE) on the constant. Such PE involves upcalls to the Truffle runtime (running in Java).
> 
> This PR provides the escape hatch such that Truffle specific logic can put a compiler thread into "allow Java upcall" mode during the scope of the Truffle logic.

`/compiler' part of changes is fine.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21285#pullrequestreview-2340808550


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