RFR: 8277212: GC accidentally cleans valid megamorphic vtable inline caches [v2]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:32:50 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Stefan Karlsson has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Review Coleen
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> src/hotspot/share/code/compiledMethod.cpp line 482:
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>> 480:       }
>> 481:     } else {
>> 482:       return true;
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> I've given up pretending to understand this code, but could you add a one line comment why you're returning true here?  ie. if ic_metadata is NULL, it's a megamorphic call or already clean and shouldn't be cleaned.

Thanks for the comment.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6450