RFR: 8268406: Deallocate jmethodID native memory [v10]
Coleen Phillimore
coleenp at openjdk.org
Tue Jun 24 21:35:44 UTC 2025
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:41:21 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This change uses a ConcurrentHashTable to associate Method* with jmethodID, instead of an indirection. JNI is deprecated in favor of using Panama to call methods, so I don't think we're concerned about JNI performance going forward. JVMTI uses a lot of jmethodIDs but there aren't any performance tests for JVMTI, but running vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti with in product build with and without this change had no difference in time.
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>> The purpose of this change is to remove the memory leak when you unload classes: we were leaving the jmethodID memory just in case JVMTI code still had references to that jmethodID and instead of crashing, should get nullptr. With this change, if JVMTI looks up a jmethodID, we've removed it from the table and will return nullptr. Redefinition and the InstanceKlass::_jmethod_method_ids is somewhat complicated. When a method becomes "obsolete" in redefinition, which means that the code in the method is changed, afterward creating a jmethodID from an "obsolete" method will create a new entry in the InstanceKlass table. This mechanism increases the method_idnum to do this. In the future maybe we could throw NoSuchMethodError if you try to create a jmethodID out of an obsolete method and remove all this code. But that's not in this change.
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>> Tested with tier1-4, 5-7.
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> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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> Fix the test
Thank you Serguei and Dan for reviewing.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25267#issuecomment-3001955294
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