RFR: 8333578: Fix uses of overaligned types induced by ZCACHE_ALIGNED
Kim Barrett
kbarrett at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 4 15:33:59 UTC 2025
On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 07:49:23 GMT, Axel Boldt-Christmas <aboldtch at openjdk.org> wrote:
> The only directly heap allocated, constructed object of types that are overaligned because of ZCACHE_ALIGNED is ZCollectedHeap. The other are either in static storage or contained in (and constructed as part of) ZCollectedHeap. So we only need to fix ZCollectedHeap allocation.
>
> As the CollectedHeap is only ever created once and is never destroyed, we can simply align the allocation and create an unfreeable pointer.
>
> This implementation imposes that `ZCacheLineSize` is a power of two, but we already have this requirement elsewhere (e.g. `ZContendedStorage`).
>
> Testing:
> * tier 1 through tier 5 Oracle supported platforms
> * GHA
Looks good.
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Marked as reviewed by kbarrett (Reviewer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23885#pullrequestreview-2658015606
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