RFR: 8290833: Remove ConstantPoolCache::walk_entries_for_initialization() [v3]

Calvin Cheung ccheung at openjdk.org
Mon Aug 8 23:11:24 UTC 2022


On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 21:48:34 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> **Background:**
>> 
>> `ConstantPoolCache::walk_entries_for_initialization()` is called by `ConstantPoolCache::remove_unshareable_info()` to restore the CpCache to the state immediately after the class has been rewritten by the Rewriter (which happens during the class linking phase). In most part, this means the `ConstantPoolCacheEntry`'s need to be zeroed. However, the `_f2` fields of some of the entries are initialized to be non-zero by the Rewriter and must be preserved.
>> 
>> The reason `walk_entries_for_initialization()` exists is that after `Rewriter::rewrite()` has finished, some information about what is stored inside the CpCache is discarded (e.g., `Rewriter::_invokedynamic_references_map`). As a result, we cannot easily determine which entries has a `_f2` field that need to be preserved. We must walk all the bytecodes in all the methods of this class to recompute this information.
>> 
>> This is awkward and time consuming. It also needs to be updated if the `Rewriter` ever changes.
>> 
>> Also, for future optimizations, we may need to pre-resolve a subset of the CpCache entries during CDS dump time. Trying to make that work alongside `walk_entries_for_initialization()` seems too complicated.
>> 
>> **Fix:**
>> 
>> Store a copy of the CpCache after rewritting. Use this to revert the CpCache's state inside  `ConstantPoolCache::remove_unshareable_info()`.
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Use a separate _saved_cpcache_entries_table

Updates look good.

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Marked as reviewed by ccheung (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9759


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