RFR: 8212992: Change mirror accessor in Klass::verify_on() to use AS_NO_KEEPALIVE
Per Liden
per.liden at oracle.com
Tue Nov 20 08:34:46 UTC 2018
Looks good!
/Per
On 11/19/18 3:30 PM, Erik Ă–sterlund wrote:
> Ping.
>
> I no longer strictly need this as verification was moved to a later
> stage where the problematic assert goes away. But I still think we
> should only peek at the mirror here anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> /Erik
>
> On 2018-10-25 20:45, Erik Ă–sterlund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Klass::verify_on() is sometimes called on unloading klasses. It
>> then reads a dead mirror, without using AS_NO_KEEPALIVE, which can
>> make GC barriers feel like :C (because that should *never* normally
>> happen). In order to make barriers happy, AS_NO_KEEPALIVE should be
>> used when loading dead oops.
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8212992/webrev.00/
>>
>> Bug:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212992
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Erik
>
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