RFR: 8368199: Add @AOTSafeClassInitializer to jdk.internal.access.SharedSecrets
Per Minborg
pminborg at openjdk.org
Mon Oct 27 08:52:04 UTC 2025
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:20:12 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:
> By annotating `SharedSecrets` as `@AOTSafeClassInitializer`, we can avoid using the `@AOTRuntimeSetup` annotations in a few JDK core classes. This simplifies the implementation. It also brings us closer to the goal of making the AOT cache as a true snapshot of the JVM state that just needs to be resumed in the production run.
src/hotspot/share/cds/cdsHeapVerifier.cpp line 186:
> 184: if (fd->signature()->starts_with("Ljdk/internal/access/") &&
> 185: fd->signature()->ends_with("Access;")) {
> 186: // The jdk/internal/access/*Access classes carry no states so they can be safely
This might be true for the time being, but adding such an assumption is a constraint for the future and should be documented. Perhaps we should have an interface `Access` that the various access classes implement, and where we could document this and other constraints of the access classes.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27880#discussion_r2464838946
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