RFR(S): 8016696: PPC64 (part 4): add relocation for trampoline stubs

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 09:47:18 PDT 2013


Sounds good (I mean the "should be there in two weeks" part :)

Thanks,
Volker

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
<vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> It should be in jdk8/hotspot in 2 weeks. We will push in comp repo today or
> on Monday. It would be best if you can wait. I will file next bugs for part
> 6 and part 7 so we can start working on them.
>
> About my push for 'part 3'. I used it for an experiment :) which was not
> successful :( . We have several JPRT connected systems and I tried to keep
> files on one system with bigger disk space but to run on an other JPRT with
> much less jobs in queue. And it was disaster - job did not complete after 14
> hours (NFS access was terrible). So I am rerunning it again in local JPRT.
> That was the reason why it was not pushed yet.
>
> I also want to do sync from main forest after that, we pushed big changes
> there this week.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
>
> On 6/21/13 8:48 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> What do you think how much time it will take to push this change to
>> hsx/ and jdk8/hotspot (as far as I see it is already reviewed -
>> right?). If you could do it fast, perhaps we can wait until it arrives
>> in the staging repository from up-stream (anyway we wanted to sync
>> regularly with upstream).
>>
>> I think omitting this patch will not block the next few changes we
>> have and if it will arrive in jdk8/hotspot within 2 or 3 weeks it may
>> save us the pain of the merging.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
>> <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Goetz,
>>>
>>> Thank you for preparing patch. Yes, we better do it separate in our repo
>>> because we may need to change closed sources also. The marge with your
>>> (part
>>> 4) changes later will be pain but we will manage.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/21/13 1:55 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I removed the breakpoint_Relocation, see
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/remove_bp_Reloc/
>>>> It builds and runs on sparc_64 and linuxx86_64.
>>>>
>>>> section_word_Relocation can not be removed simply.
>>>> Internal_word relocations are changed to section_word
>>>> by pack_data_to.  I counted the relocations where they
>>>> are generated, so I did not catch this.  So I didn't remove
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> I guess we should make an extra change for this, maybe even
>>>> push it to the hotspot-comp repository?  It's got nothing to
>>>> do with the port.
>>>>
>>>> Bertrand, can I push 8016696: PPC64 (part 4), now as the problem
>>>> with the enum is solved?
>>>> It will not conflict with 0003, as they touch different files.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>     Goetz.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vladimir Kozlov [mailto:vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com]
>>>> Sent: Freitag, 21. Juni 2013 00:12
>>>> To: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>>>> Cc: 'John Rose'; 'Bertrand Delsart'; 'Albert Noll
>>>> (albert.noll at oracle.com)'; 'ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net';
>>>> 'hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net'
>>>> Subject: Re: RFR(S): 8016696: PPC64 (part 4): add relocation for
>>>> trampoline stubs
>>>>
>>>> Hmm 'breakpoint_type'? I don't remember that and I only see one use
>>>> place in MacroAssembler::safepoint() on sparc and that method is not
>>>> used anymore.
>>>> I build SPARC VM without breakpoint_Relocation class (commented out).
>>>> Looks like we can remove this type.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Vladimir
>>>>
>>>> On 6/20/13 2:23 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> here the table from my last mail once more, with better formatting.
>>>>> It shows what relocations are used in a simple jvm98 run.
>>>>>
>>>>>                      | x86_32  |  x86_64   | ppc_64
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>> oop               | 44566   |  37129    | 24090
>>>>> virtual_call      | 10422   |   9265    |  9727
>>>>> opt_virtual_call  |  9083   |   8085    |  8344
>>>>> static_call       |   435   |    404    |   423
>>>>> static_stub       |  9518   |   8489    |  8767
>>>>> runtime_call      | 61762   |  57695    | 27899
>>>>> external_word     |  6919   |   9622    |     0
>>>>> internal_word     |  3747   |   5898    | 40903
>>>>> poll              |  2807   |   2476    |  2705
>>>>> poll_return       |  2219   |   1989    |  2188
>>>>> breakpoint        |     0   |      0    |     0
>>>>> section_word      |     0   |      0    |     0
>>>>> trampoline_stub   |     0   |      0    | 30428
>>>>>
>>>>> current fillers   |     2   |     34    |     3
>>>>> new filler needed |     9   |    144    |     0
>>>>>
>>>>> Sum               | 140176  |  130978   | 144942
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I did this with hs24, therefore metadata is missing, but
>>>>> that should not affect the basic picture.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>      Goetz.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From:
>>>>>
>>>>> ppc-aix-port-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net<mailto:ppc-aix-port-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net>
>>>>> [mailto:ppc-aix-port-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of John
>>>>> Rose
>>>>> Sent: Dienstag, 18. Juni 2013 21:40
>>>>> To: Bertrand Delsart
>>>>> Cc: Roland Westrelin;
>>>>>
>>>>> ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net<mailto:ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net>;
>>>>> hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net<mailto:hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>>>> Subject: Re: RFR(S): 8016696: PPC64 (part 4): add relocation for
>>>>> trampoline stubs
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Bertrand Delsart
>>>>> <bertrand.delsart at oracle.com<mailto:bertrand.delsart at oracle.com>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This change is consuming the last unused relocType (yet_unused_type_2)
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, that relocType is also used for other projects both
>>>>> within
>>>>> the embedded team and the compiler team (you should not which one I am
>>>>> speaking about Roland :-))
>>>>>
>>>>> This means relocType will no longer fit into 4 bits. I'll let you see
>>>>> with the compiler team whether this can easily be solved (by increasing
>>>>> the
>>>>> size or recycling other reloc types) or whether we need to discuss more
>>>>> before deciding how to use the last available relocType.
>>>>>
>>>>> The relocInfo records are stored as an array of unsigned shorts (u2).
>>>>> This slightly simplifies random access compared with a CompressedStream
>>>>> representation, but otherwise is less dense and pits tag space directly
>>>>> against offset space.
>>>>>
>>>>> At some point I would like to see them re-engineered using
>>>>> CompressedStream, which is built on the more robust UNSIGNED5
>>>>> representation.  That would allow reloc info tokens to be built from
>>>>> 32-bit
>>>>> values, as long as most of them were small in magnitude.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For now, as an incremental change, it would be reasonable to make the
>>>>> tag
>>>>> width (type_width) be variable.  The most common tags could be encoded
>>>>> as 4
>>>>> bits and the least common 25% in (say) 6, giving a 75% increase in
>>>>> coding
>>>>> space at small cost.  The extra tag bits would break into the value
>>>>> field
>>>>> (for the less-common tags). There is already a mechanism for dealing
>>>>> with
>>>>> value field overflow, which could be adapted to be sensitive to the tag
>>>>> width.
>>>>>
>>>>> The variability could be encoded in the tag field itself (Huffman
>>>>> style,
>>>>> right-to-left):
>>>>>      type_width = 4,
>>>>>      type_width_2 = 6,
>>>>>      type_width_2_mask = 0x0003,
>>>>>      ...
>>>>>      bool type_width() { (_value & type_width_2_mask) ==
>>>>> type_width_2_mask
>>>>> ? type_width_2 : type_width; }
>>>>>      ...
>>>>>
>>>>> - John
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S.  Back in the day, I wrote the flyweight object mechanism by which
>>>>> reloc info streams are loaded with objects that are both by-value and
>>>>> virtual-function-bearing.  It is somewhat fragile and (I now think)
>>>>> over-clever.  This is another thing I would like to change about the
>>>>> relocinfo mechanism, if it were rewritten.  Since then other parts of
>>>>> the
>>>>> JVM have used stream-like structs like RelocIterator, but they don't
>>>>> mess
>>>>> around with vtables in rewritable stack objects, which (IMO) are at the
>>>>> edge
>>>>> of the C++ language.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>


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