RFR: 8170098: AArch64: VM is extremely slow with JVMTI debugging enabled

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Andrew,

Should the code in MethodHandles::jump_from_method_handle() be changed
as well?

-Dmitry

On 2016-11-21 18:15, Andrew Haley wrote:
> JavaThread::interp_only_mode is a 32-bit sized field. In the assembly code we read it as a 64-bit xword, causing false positives. This means that as soon as we attach a JVMTI debugger everything runs very slowly.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8170098/
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
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