[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: JDK-8143584 Aarch64: Load constant pool tag and class status with load acquire

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/25/2015 11:28 AM, Hui Shi wrote:
> 
> I haven't find explicit code synchronize InstanceKlass' content. In
> SystemDictionary::load_instance_class, it uses MutexLocker and this might
> help.

We don't need to synchronize in TemplateTable::_new because
Klass::layout_helper saves the slow_path flag in the least significant
bit.  If we find that layout_helper is not valid we'll take the slow
path and acquire the lock.

> new webrev in http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hshi/8143584/webrev_v2/

That looks OK.

Thanks,

Andrew.