RFR(M) 8212605: Pure-Java implementation of AccessController.doPrivileged
dean.long at oracle.com
dean.long at oracle.com
Wed Oct 31 22:23:12 UTC 2018
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212605
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlong/8212605/webrev.1
This change implements AccessController.doPrivileged in Java. This
gives a performance improvement while also being useful to Project Loom
by removing the Java --> native --> Java transition. One reason
doPrivileged has historically been in native is because of the need to
guarantee the cleanup of the privileged context when doPrivileged
returns. To do that in Java, the information that
AccessController.getContext needs is pushed onto the Java stack as
arguments to a method that getContext will recognize during its stack
walk. This allows us to remove the native privileged stack while
guaranteeing that the privileged context goes away when the method returns.
Tested with tier1-tier3 hotspot and jdk tests and JCK api/java_security
tests. For the first few rounds of testing, I kept the old native
privileged stack and compared the results of the old and new
implementations for each getContext call, which did catch some early
bugs. The changes were also examined by internal security experts and
run through additional internal security tests.
The improvement on this [1] doPrivileged microbenchmark is approximate 50x.
There is no attempt to optimize getContext() or security permission
checks in this change, however, this is intended to be a first step
towards other possible improvements, for example those proposed here [2].
dl
[1]
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jmh-jdk-microbenchmarks/file/fc4783360f58/src/main/java/org/openjdk/bench/java/security/DoPrivileged.java
[2]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2017-December/016627.html
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