RFR: 8204680: Disassembly does not display code strings in stubs

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Mon Jun 11 20:35:02 UTC 2018


Looks fine to me.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 6/11/18 7:37 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> So last Friday I was looking at the code we generate for the runtime
> stubs and I noticed that there were no comments in the disassembly.
> Which is odd, because I'm sure it used to work.  I found a bug which
> prevented it from working, fixed it, but there was still no output.
> What??!  This led me down a rabbit hole from which I was to emerge
> several hours later.
> 
> It turns out there are two separate bugs.
> 
> When we disassemble, the code strings are found in the CodeBlob that
> contains the code.  Unfortunately, when we use -XX:+PrintStubCode the
> disassembly is done from a CodeBuffer before the code strings have
> actually been copied to the code blob, so the disassembler finds no
> code strings.
> 
> Also, the code strings are only copied into the CodeBlob if
> PrintStubCode is true, so "call disnm()" in the debugger doesn't print
> any code strings because they were lost when the CodeBlob was created.
> 
> With both of these fixed, we have fully-commented disassembly in the
> stubs again.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8204680/
> 
> OK?
> 


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