RFR: 8286944: Loom: Common ContinuationEntry cookie handling

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 18 May 2022 15:18:52 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Platform-specific code injects the cookie to the head of ContinuationEntry. The value for this cookie is hard-coded in platform-specific code, which is fragile. It would be better to common the cookie handling a bit to ease porting. In fact, I have spent an hour trying to debug a thing where I mistyped a cookie value in x86_32 code, hence my interest.
>> 
>> Additional testing:
>>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, `java/lang/Thread/virtual`
>>  - [x] Linux AArch64 fastdebug, `java/lang/Thread/virtual`
>
> I retested both x86_64 and AArch64 with new testgroups, and the tests are passing.

> We were thinking of renaming the ContinuationEntry class because it's not an entry but more of an anchor. Your suggestions are welcome @shipilev since it appears that you're doing a lot of porting work. We'll wait until things settle down though (maybe in JDK 20).

I don't care about the naming at this point :) Maybe later, indeed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8762