RFR: 8261127: Cleanup THREAD/TRAPS/CHECK usage in CDS code [v3]

[David Holmes]

On 5/02/2021 3:57 pm, Ioi Lam wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 05:14:03 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:
> 
>>> While examining changes related to the TRAPS macro I noticed that a number of CDS related methods were passed a thread parameter that ended up never being used. Fixing this percolates up the call chain resulting in the ability to remove the parameter from other calls. In some places the thread is needed and has to be manifested via Thread::current(), but these are few and non-critical, and the cleanup of the API (including the benefit to the TRAPS work - see JDK-8252685) makes this worthwhile.
>>>
>>> I also changed `Thread* THREAD` to TRAPS where it relates to exception processing (even if CDS diverts to an abort path).
>>>
>>> Some uses of CHECK were removed that were only passing THREAD and the called code never triggers any exceptions.
>>>
>>> Added commentary where it is not clear why we don't use CHECK.
>>>
>>> Testing: local build and CI tiers 1-3
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
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>> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>>    Missed updating caller of resolve_classes() - which never lets exceptions propagate
> 
> Still good.

Thanks Ioi!

David

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> Marked as reviewed by iklam (Reviewer).
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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2397
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