Integrated: 8326820: Metadata artificially kept alive

[Axel Boldt-Christmas]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:25:36 GMT, Axel Boldt-Christmas <aboldtch at openjdk.org> wrote:

> ClassLoaderDataGraph provides APIs for walking different metadata. All the iterators which are not designed to be used by the GC also keep the holder of the CLDs alive and by extensions keeps all metadata alive. This is problematic for concurrent GC as it keeps otherwise unreachable classes from being unloaded and the respective metadata freed. 
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> This patch changes the default iteration behaviour to not keep the holder alive, with the exception of `loaded_classes_do` (renamed `loaded_classes_do_keepalive`) and `modules_do` (renamed `modules_do_keepalive`) which is used by jvmti APIs that requires that the holder is kept alive.
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> All other uses consumes all the metadata it queries during its safepoint or before releasing the `ClassLoaderDataGraph_lock`. 
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> Before this change some jcmd, new jfr chunks and some jfr events, all of which consumed these APIs, could cause class unloading to not occur. 
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> Been running our internal stress test in an even more stressful mode which without this patch reproduces the metaspace OOME [JDK-8326005](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8326005) consistently within a few hours. And after this patch it does not.
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> Currently running tier1-tier8 testing.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 5909d541
Author:    Axel Boldt-Christmas <aboldtch at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/5909d54147355dd7da5786ff39ead4c15816705c
Stats:     80 lines in 6 files changed: 31 ins; 25 del; 24 mod

8326820: Metadata artificially kept alive

Reviewed-by: eosterlund, stefank, coleenp

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19769