RFR: 8373266: Strengthen constant CardTable base accesses [v2]

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:26:39 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Aleksey Shipilev 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 nine additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8373266-cardtable-asserts
>>  - Another build fix
>>  - Fix Minimal builds
>>  - Shenandoah non-generational can have nullptr card table
>>  - Also simplify CTBS builder
>>  - CI should also mention "const"
>>  - Fix JVMCI by answering proper things
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8373266-cardtable-asserts
>>  - More fixes
>
> src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_arm/javaThread_linux_arm.cpp line 47:
> 
>> 45:   if (bs->is_a(BarrierSet::CardTableBarrierSet)) {
>> 46:     CardTableBarrierSet* ctbs = CardTableBarrierSet::barrier_set();
>> 47:     _card_table_base = (address) ctbs->card_table_base_const();
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>     _card_table_base = (address)ctbs->card_table_base_const();
> 
> For consistency

Done.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28703#discussion_r2713396310