RFR: 8213411: JDK-8209189 incorrect for Big Endian (JVM crashes)

[Erik Österlund]

Hi Vladimir,

Thank you for the review. I made an abstraction for the bit fiddling as 
suggested to make it more readable.
There is now an AllStatic IsUnloadingState class that has a mask and 
shift for each field, expresses getters and setters using them, and a 
create function for setting some passed in fields into a new bit field.

Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213411/webrev.01/

Thanks,
/Erik

On 2018-11-06 17:21, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> It would be nice if you use enum for values, masks and shift (like for 
> markOop). It will become more readable.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 11/6/18 2:34 AM, Erik Österlund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my patch for 8209189 I assumed that the following struct 
>> containing a bit field using 3 bits, would be packed to one byte:
>>
>> struct IsUnloadingStruct {
>>    unsigned int _is_unloading:1;
>>    unsigned int _unloading_cycle:2;
>> };
>>
>> Turns out though that the size of this 3 bit bitfield is typically 4 
>> bytes, causing trouble on big endian machines. The compilers can be 
>> tamed to turn this to a byte (as expected) by using struct packing.
>>
>> So the two most obvious solutions are either
>> 1) Make a struct packing macro, and trust the compilers won't mess up 
>> then.
>> 2) Do manual bit fiddling because we do not trust compilers.
>>
>> Martin convinced me to go with #2.
>>
>> Bug:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213411
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213411/webrev.00/
>>
>> Running a bunch of tests while waiting for review.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Erik