RFR: 8241825: Make compressed oops and compressed class pointers independent on x86_64
Erik Österlund
erik.osterlund at oracle.com
Fri Apr 24 08:17:08 UTC 2020
Hi,
Today, the use of compressed class pointers assumes the use of
compressed oops.
This patch loosens up the relationship between compressed oops and
compressed
class pointers, so that compressed class pointers can be used without
compressed
oops. This benefits for example ZGC that wants compressed class
pointers, but
not compressed oops, effectively giving ZGC 4 bytes smaller objects.
Much of the complexity of the change is that r12 used to be used by
compressed
class pointers as some kind of semi-fast temp register that one would
restore
to the compressed oops heap base (or zero). That made it effectively a
slightly
optimized spilling mechanism used to find a temp register. I replaced that
mechanism with a plain old normal temp register that you pass in as a
parameter.
The bad news is that I had to find available temp registers in a lot of
places.
The good news is that almost always were there temp registers available
for free,
and hence the new temp register is even faster than the old optimized
spilling
mechanism. Because we almost never need any spilling at all in the
contexts where
this is used.
Since I want the 4 new bytes to actually make objects smaller, I poked
the new
layout code a bit so that the klass gap is made available for fields.
That used
to be made available only with compressed oops enabled, due to
restrictions in
the layout code. Our new layout code does not have such restrictions, and so
I will make the 4 bytes available for fields when the new layout code is
used
and compressed class pointers are used.
Now I'm only fixing this for HotSpot x86_64. Ideally the use of
compressed oops
and compressed class pointers should not be entangled in other platforms and
Graal. But that is beyond the scope of this change, and I will let them
behave
the way that they used to, to be potentially fixed later.
Bug:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241825
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8241825/webrev.00/
Testing:
hs-tier1-7
Thanks,
/Erik
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