RFR: 8313224: Avoid calling JavaThread::current() in MemAllocator::Allocation constructor

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:34:16 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Summary: Avoid calling `JavaThread::current()` since we already have a `Thread*` in `MemAllocator::_thread`.
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> Although the latter is declared to be a `Thead*` and not a `JavaThread*`, the calling context requires the current thread to be a `JavaThread`, and  `MemAllocator::_thread` was initialized to be  `Thread::current`, so I changed the code from 
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> _thread(JavaThread::current()),
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> assert(Thread::current()->is_Java_thread(), "must be used by JavaThreads only");
> assert(Thread::current() == allocator._thread, "do not pass MemAllocator across threads");
> _thread = JavaThread::cast(allocator._thread);
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> I also clean up a few other lines to limit the explicit use of `JavaThread*`.
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> This fix improved `java --version` by about 0.6% for my prototype of [JDK-8310823](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8310823), which allocates ~24000 heap objects at VM start-up.

Generally looks okay but one query below.

Thanks.

src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/memAllocator.cpp line 100:

> 98: 
> 99: public:
> 100:   PreserveObj(Thread* thread, oop* obj_ptr)

Why did you change this? Following through the usage call chain it is only used by the `_thread` from `Allocation` which has to be a `JavaThread`.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15058#pullrequestreview-1550879425
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15058#discussion_r1276856127