RFR (S) 8247296: Optimize JVM_GetDeclaringClass

[David Holmes]

Hi Aleksey,

Thanks for taking a look.

On 24/07/2020 5:22 pm, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 7/24/20 5:49 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8247296
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8247296/webrev/
> 
> This looks fine to me.
> 
> So we need to be careful that naked oop is still valid at each use, which at least implies there are
> no allocations (and associated safepoints) happen anywhere in between? The patch looks safe in that
> regard.

Right - no safepoints (or handshakes?) allowed. But these cases are all 
okay. Places that can cross safepoints tend to wrap the oop straight 
into a Handle to maintain safe access.

Cheers,
David
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