[foreign-memaccess] RFR: 8245459: Add support for complex filter value var handle adaptation

Maurizio Cimadamore mcimadamore at openjdk.java.net
Wed May 20 13:06:33 UTC 2020


It is sometimes necessary to apply a carrier transform on a VarHandle that is expressed in more than just a pair of
unary function (e.g. from `A->B` and `B->A`). Sometimes the transform needs to act on some bit of external state.

It would be nice if `MemoryHandles::filterValue` would be enhanced to accept all functions of the kind:

`(C... A) ->B`
`(C... B) -> A`

So that the resulting VarHandle will apply carrier transform from A to B and will also add extra coordinate types
(C...) which can be used by the transform filters.

To enhance `MemoryHandles::filterValue` this way regular MH adapters are not enough; while we can implement setters, by
combining the filters with `MethodHandles::collectArguments` there is no way to implement the getters - since that
would require a method handle transform which adapts a return value *and* adds some extra parameters to the adapter
handle (which are then forwarded to the filter).

This patch adds the missing method handle primitive to do that; for now it's a package private method, namely
`MethodHandles::collectReturnValue`. If people think that this could be useful, we can evaluate whether to open this up
for method handle combinator API as well.

This required to add a new kind of lambda form using the `LambdaFormEditor`, which was a bit tricky to get right (we
currently have no transforms which operates on both arguments *and* return values, which makes it tricky).

The implementation of `MemoryHandles::filterValue` is also a bit more complex, since if there are additional
coordinates added by collecting arguments/return values, such additional coordinates might be added multiple times, so
we need some steps to 'join' the extra coordinates (with a call to `MethodHandle::permuteArguments`) so that extra
coordinate show up only once in the final adapter.

If the filter functions used for adapting are just unary functions, then the implementation falls back to the simpler
behavior we had before, and the permutation step is skipped (in such cases, `collectArguments` == `filterArguments` and
`collectReturnValue` == `filterReturnValue`).

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Commit messages:
 - Add support for complex filter value adaptations

Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/179/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/179/webrev.00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8245459
  Stats: 190 lines in 6 files changed: 167 ins; 0 del; 23 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/179.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign pull/179/head:pull/179

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/179


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