RFR: 8316694: Implement relocation of nmethod within CodeCache

Evgeny Astigeevich eastigeevich at openjdk.org
Thu Mar 13 15:21:58 UTC 2025


On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:05:13 GMT, Chad Rakoczy <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR introduces a new function to replace nmethods, addressing [JDK-8316694](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8316694). It enables the creation of new nmethods from existing ones, allowing method relocation in the code heap and supporting [JDK-8328186](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8328186).
> 
> When an nmethod is replaced, a deep copy is performed. The corresponding Java method is updated to reference the new nmethod, while the old one is marked as unused. The garbage collector handles final cleanup and deallocation.
> 
> This change does not modify existing code paths and therefore does not benefit much from existing tests. New tests were created and confirmed to pass on x64/aarch64 for slowdebug/fastdebug/release.

src/hotspot/share/code/nmethod.cpp line 1599:

> 1597:     return false;
> 1598:   }
> 1599: 

We plant to relocate only compiled code. We can check this with:

if (compiler_type() == compiler_none) {
  return false;
}


I think we don't need `is_method_handle_intrinsic()` and `is_continuation_native_intrinsic()` with this check.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23573#discussion_r1993762130


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