RFR: 8350550: Preload classes from AOT cache during VM bootstrap [v2]
Ioi Lam
iklam at openjdk.org
Fri Aug 22 04:54:41 UTC 2025
> This PR loads the classes for the boot/platform/app loaders with `AOTLinkedClassBulkLoader::preload_classes()`. This happens at the very beginning of `vmClasses::resolve_all()`, before any Java code is executed.
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> - We essentially iterate over all the classes inside the `AOTLinkedClassTable` and adds them into the system dictionary using the new method `SystemDictionary::preload_class()`.
> - `SystemDictionary::preload_class(..., k)` is lightweight because it's called in a single thread after all super types of `k` have been loaded. So most of the complicated work (such as place holders, circularity detection, etc) in `SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null(..., k)` can be skipped. We also don't need to call into `ClassLoader::load_class()` as the boot/platform/app loaders are well-behaved.
> - In the assembly phase, we record the mirror, package, protection domain, code source, etc, of these classes. So there's no need to programmatically create them in the production run. See `HeapShared::copy_java_mirror()` and also changes in ClassLoader.java and SecureClassLoader.java.
Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
@DanHeidinga comments
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375/files/15746239..b7a191d8
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26375&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26375&range=00-01
Stats: 12 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 11 del; 1 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26375/head:pull/26375
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375
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