RFR: 8293979: Resolve JVM_CONSTANT_Class references at CDS dump time

Ioi Lam iklam at openjdk.org
Mon Sep 19 04:46:20 UTC 2022


Some `JVM_CONSTANT_Class` entries are guaranteed to resolve to the same value at both CDS dump time and run time:

- Classes that are resolved during `vmClasses::resolve_all()`. These classes cannot be replaced by JVMTI agents at run time.
- Supertypes -- at run time, a class `C` can be loaded from the CDS archive only if all of `C`'s super types are also loaded from the CDS archive. Therefore, we know that a `JVM_CONSTANT_Class` reference to a supertype of `C` must resolved to the same value at both CDS dump time and run time.

By doing the resolution at dump time, we can speed up run time start-up by a little bit.

The `ClassPrelinker` class added by this PR will also be used in future REFs for pre-resolving other constant pool entries. The ultimate goal is to resolve `invokedynamic` and `invokehandle` so we can significantly improve the start-up time of features such as Lambda expressions and String concatenation. See [JDK-8293336](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293336)

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Commit messages:
 - 8293979: Resolve JVM_CONSTANT_Class references at CDS dump time

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10330/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10330&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293979
  Stats: 439 lines in 9 files changed: 386 ins; 39 del; 14 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10330.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10330/head:pull/10330

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10330


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