RFR: 8293337: Store method handle intrinsics in AOT cache [v8]

[Andrew Dinn]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 01:06:09 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the 5th PR for [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737).
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>> This PR is necessary to support [JDK-8293336: AOT-linking of invokedynamic for lambda expression and string concat](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293336), which needs to store Java heap objects that have native pointers to the C++ `Method` objects  returned by `SystemDictionary::find_method_handle_intrinsic()` 
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>> These `Method` objects are created within the JVM. They do not belong to any actual Java classes. We store all these `Method` objects into the AOT cache, so that they can be referenced by other artifacts in the AOT cache.
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>> See [here](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737) for the sequence of dependent RFEs for implementing JEP 483.
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> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 15 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - @coleenp comments
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - @vnkozlov comment - added NOT_CDS_RETURN
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - Merge branch 'jep-483-step-04-8293187-support-sun-invoke-util-wrapper-in-cds-archive-heap' into jep-483-step-05-8293337-archive-method-handle-intrinsics
>  - some clean up
>  - ... and 5 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/1d1c0d8e...9b787423

This all looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by adinn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20959#pullrequestreview-2345196930