Request for review 8007320: NPG: move method annotations

[Coleen Phillimore]

I forgot to mention that I will update the copyrights when I commit the 
change.
Thanks,
Coleen

On 01/31/2013 05:12 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
>
> From the bug report:
>
> This is related to 8003419. The annotations are allocated in Metaspace 
> during class file parsing and pointers to them are carried around 
> through the parser. In order to clean these up, you'd have to collect 
> these pointers somewhere so they can be cleaned up if the parse fails.
>
> Instead, attach method annotations to the constMethod so that they can 
> be cleaned up if the ConstMethod has to be cleaned up.
>
> If any annotations exists for any method, an Array<u1> is created for 
> that method, but it's put into an Array<Array<u1>*> (an array of these 
> arrays) where there's an entry for each method in the klass, so the 
> other methods would have a pointer allocated for it whether needed or 
> not. There are 3 of these array of arrays in the type Annotations, and 
> an Annotations* object for type annotations, which are so far created 
> infrequently.
>
> The fix is to move the 4 types of method annotations to embedded 
> pointers in the ConstMethod if they are needed and add a flag to 
> indicate whether they are present. You could embed the annotations 
> directly, but the length has to be pulled out as an 'int' from 
> unaligned storage, and the bit math is getting to be too fragile 
> without a redesign.
>
> Also, some code was refactored in parse_method() and the code that 
> sorted annotation arrays to match sorted method arrays isn't needed 
> anymore.  This is in a couple of places, including defaultMethods and 
> RedefineClasses.
>
> The real purpose of this change is to make the annotations allocated 
> in Metaspace easier to clean up if class file parsing fails, but 
> hopefully has some cleanup and space saving benefits as well.
>
> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8007320/
> bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8007320 (just filed 
> it so might not be available yet)
>
>
> Tested with serviceability tests (nsk.sajdi.testlist, 
> vm.tmtools.testlist),  jtreg tests for annotations, including the new 
> type annotation tests, jtreg tests for java/lang/instrument, 
> nsk.parallel_class_loading.testlist and vm.quick.testlist (which is 
> the same as full).
>
> Thanks,
> Coleen
>
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