RFR: 8350550: Preload classes from AOT cache during VM bootstrap [v10]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:18:29 GMT, Vladimir Kozlov <kvn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   @ashu-mehra comment - AOTLinkedClassBulkLoader::link_or_init_javabase_classes() should also call exit_on_exception()
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> src/hotspot/share/cds/aotLinkedClassBulkLoader.cpp line 60:
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>> 58: // Preloading requires that the Java heap objects of java.lang.Class, java.lang.Package and
>> 59: // java.security.ProtectionDomain already exist for the preloaded classes. Therefore, we support preloading
>> 60: // only for the classes in the static CDS archive. Classes in the dynamic archive are not supported because
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> "for the classes in the static CDS archive"? Do you mean "AOT cache"?  Or this feature also works for old static CDS archive?

I see `precond(CDSConfig::is_using_aot_linked_classes())` on following cod. Which means it only works for AOT cache. Please update comment to avoid confusion.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375#discussion_r2370761057