RFR: 8199946: Move load/store and encode/decode out of oopDesc

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8199946/webrev.02/src/hotspot/cpu/arm/nativeInst_arm_64.cpp.udiff.html
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8199946/webrev.02/src/hotspot/cpu/arm/relocInfo_arm.cpp.udiff.html

I think the include should be oops/compressedOops.inline.hpp in these.

Besides my confusion over whether RawAccess<>::oop_load and store decode 
the oop or not in the gc code, this looks really good to me.  It's nice 
to encapsulate the compressedOops code now.

Thanks,
Coleen



On 3/22/18 12:01 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch needs Erik's change to the LoadProxies:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2018-March/021504.html 
>
>
> to build on fastdebug.
>
> Here's a rebased patch:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8199946/webrev.02/
>
> Thanks,
> StefanK
>
> On 2018-03-21 18:27, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please review this patch to get rid of the oopDesc::load/store 
>> functions and to move the oopDesc::encode/decode functions to a new 
>> CompressedOops subsystem.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8199946/webrev.01
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199946
>>
>> When the Access API was introduced many of the usages of 
>> oopDesc::load_decode_heap_oop, and friends, were replaced by calls to 
>> the Access API. However, there are still some usages of these 
>> functions, most notably in the GC code.
>>
>> This patch is two-fold:
>>
>> 1) It replaces the oopDesc load and store calls with RawAccess 
>> equivalents.
>>
>> 2) It moves the oopDesc encode and decode functions to a new, 
>> separate, subsystem called CompressedOops. A future patch could even 
>> move all the Universe::_narrow_oop variables over to CompressedOops.
>>
>> The second part has the nice property that it breaks up a circular 
>> dependency between oop.inline.hpp and access.inline.hpp. After the 
>> change we have:
>>
>> oop.inline.hpp includes:
>>    access.inline.hpp
>>    compressedOops.inline.hpp
>>
>> access.inline.hpp includes:
>>    compressedOops.inline.hpp
>>
>> Thanks,
>> StefanK