RFR (S): 8197844: JVMTI GetLoadedClasses should use the Access API
Erik Österlund
erik.osterlund at oracle.com
Thu Feb 15 10:04:09 UTC 2018
Hi,
The JVMTI GetLoadedClasses function retrieves, as the name suggests, all
loaded classes. However, to be able to safely return their mirrors in
handles during potential concurrent marking, G1 requires an SATB enqueue
barrier to shade these mirrors grey that were not part of the snapshot
at the beginning, to prevent the classes from being unloaded.
The current solution is to explicitly SATB enqueue the mirror of the
retrieved classes with the usual #ifdef blah if (UseG1GC) jazz.
My proposed solution is to instead use the Access API to make the code
more modular. In the Access API, this operation corresponds to loading
the mirror with ON_PHANTOM_OOP_REF. Also, an observation from my part is
that usually when we keep classes from unloading, we keep the
klass_holder alive, rather than the mirror. For all Klasses except
anonymous instanceKlasses, the holder is the class loader. For anonymous
instanceKlasses, the holder is the mirror. As the rest of the code tends
to prevent class unloading by keeping the holder alive, I would prefer
to keep the holder alive instead of the mirror, unless there is a good
reason to keep the mirror alive instead of the holder.
Bug:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8197844
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8197844/webrev.00/
This change has made it through hs-tier1-5 and jdk-tier1-3.
Thanks,
/Erik
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