RFR: 8286058: AArch64: clarify uses of MacroAssembler::trampoline_call [v2]

Evgeny Astigeevich duke at openjdk.java.net
Thu May 19 12:25:57 UTC 2022


On Thu, 5 May 2022 22:49:43 GMT, Evgeny Astigeevich <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> `MacroAssembler::trampoline_call` is for generating calls of targets which are inside CodeCache and can have relocInfo types: `runtime_call_type`, `opt_virtual_call_type`, `static_call_type` or `virtual_call_type`.
>> This PR updates the description of the function and adds additional asserts.
>> Tested a fastdebug build:
>> - `gtest`: Passed
>> - `tier1`: Passed
>
> Evgeny Astigeevich has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fix assert message

Hi Andrew,

JFYI

> However, I do not think that any current user of trampoline_call() uses the insts_mark for anything, and it could usefully be removed as part of a cleanup.

I have removed this. There were assert crashes in fastdebug because trampoline_call must be connected with CompiledStaticCall::emit_to_interp_stub to have correct relocInfo records. I fixed this.

> BTW, we have a new trampoline_call1: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/macroAssembler_aarch64.hpp#L1101. This is a surprise from the project Loom. I'll try to handle it as well.

I am currently removing `trampoline_call1`.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8564


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