RFR: 8370527: Memory leak after 8316694: Implement relocation of nmethod within CodeCache [v2]

Evgeny Astigeevich eastigeevich at openjdk.org
Tue Oct 28 16:40:12 UTC 2025


On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:35:33 GMT, Chad Rakoczy <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> [JDK-8370527](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8370527)
>> 
>> [JDK-8316694](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8316694) introduced an `immutable_data_references_counter` which keeps track of the number of nmethods using the immutable data so it can be shared between relocated nmethods. The old code reads the counter, decrements the counter, and then checks the first read to see if it is zero. Since the check is performed on the initial read it will never be zero which causes immutable data to never be freed.
>
> Chad Rakoczy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Cleanup

lgtm

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Marked as reviewed by eastigeevich (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28008#pullrequestreview-3389765202


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