[master] RFR: 8301562: [Lilliput] Runtime flag to enable Lilliput [v5]

Roman Kennke rkennke at openjdk.org
Thu Mar 2 16:10:29 UTC 2023


> This change introduces an experimental runtime flag -XX:[+/-]UseCompactObjectHeaders which can be used to disable Lilliput. The flag guards all the relevant places that directly affect the object layout and the accesses to Klass* etc. The change also restores the previous behaviour when -UseCompactObjectHeaders is selected.
> 
> One special difficulty is that CDS archives that are generated with compact object headers cannot currently be read with old-style headers, and vice versa. I work around this by disabling CDS when UseCompactObjectHeaders is set to non-default. This makes a few tests fail, but should otherwise be harmless. (In theory, we could implement parsing archives and loading objects with the correct header layout, but ... life's too short ;-) )
> 
> Testing:
>  - [x] tier1 (x86_64, x86_32, aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [x] tier2 (x86_64, x86_32, aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [x] tier1 (x86_64, x86_32, aarch64) -UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [x] tier2 (x86_64, x86_32, aarch64) -UseCompactObjectHeaders

Roman Kennke has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:

 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/JDK-8301562' into JDK-8301562
 - Remove superfluous changes

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/70/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/70/files/b878e6d7..aebedb63

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=lilliput&pr=70&range=04
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=lilliput&pr=70&range=03-04

  Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/70.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput pull/70/head:pull/70

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/70


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