RFR: 8259894: refactor parts of jvm.h into jvm_io.h and jvm_constants.h [v3]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:33:04 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> jvm.h is over 1000 lines long. It is included by 940 out of 1000 HotSpot .o files. However, most of the HotSpot source files just use a small fraction of jvm.h:
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>> - the jio_xxxprintf() functions
>> - the JVM_RECOGNIZED_XXX_MODIFIERS defines
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>> We should move these two parts into jvm_io.h and jvm_constants.h. This reduces the files that include jvm.h to about 82 files. Build time of HotSpot is reduced by about 0.4%.
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>> Testing: mach5: tier1, builds-tier2, builds-tier3, builds-tier4 and builds-tier5. Also locally: aarch64, arm, ppc64, s390, x86, and zero.
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> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - fixed windows build failure
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8259894-refactor-jvm.h
>  - David Holmes comments
>  - 8259894: refactor parts of jvm.h into jvm_io.h and jvm_constants.h

Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2154