RFR: 8363986: Heap region in CDS archive is not at deterministic address [v2]

Ioi Lam iklam at openjdk.org
Fri Nov 14 07:04:09 UTC 2025


> **Overview**
> 
> This PR fixes the problem where the JDK build is not reproducible because the `lib/server/classes*.jsa` files do not always put the heap objects at the same addresses. This bug affects only `+UseCompressedOops`.
> 
> This bug is in generic code and is not specific to any platform. We hadn't hit this bug because our build platforms always allocated the heap at the same location. However, this is no longer true with macOS 26, which puts the heap at random locations.
> 
> **The fix**
> 
> (1) In `ArchiveHeapWriter::init()`, we check if we need deterministic heap contents.
> 
> (2) In `ArchiveHeapWriter::set_requested_address_range()`, if deterministic heap contents are needed, we always put the archived heap objects to just below `0x100000000`, so that we always write the archived oops into the CDS archive with  zero-based, zero-shift encoding.
> 
> Please see comments in the above two functions for more details.

Ioi Lam has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains seven commits:

 - clean up of old C++ class name ArchiveHeapWriter
 - @ashu-mehra comment -- simplified the criteria for _is_writing_deterministic_heap
 - Merge branch 'master' into 8363986-heap-region-in-aot-cache-not-determinitic-address
 - More clean up
 - fixed aot map
 - clean up
 - 8363986: Heap region in CDS archive is not at deterministic address

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28052/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28052&range=01
  Stats: 141 lines in 7 files changed: 100 ins; 17 del; 24 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28052.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28052/head:pull/28052

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28052


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