Integrated: 8292818: replace 96-bit representation for field metadata with variable-sized streams

[Frederic Parain]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:50:34 GMT, Frederic Parain <fparain at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change re-implementing the FieldInfo data structure.
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> The FieldInfo array is an old data structure storing fields metadata. It has poor extension capabilities, a complex management code because of lack of strong typing and semantic overloading, and a poor memory efficiency.
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> The new implementation uses a compressed stream to store those metadata, achieving better memory density and providing flexible extensibility, while exposing a strongly typed set of data when uncompressed. The stream is compressed using the unsigned5 encoding, which alreay present in the JDK (because of pack200) and the JVM (because JIT compulers use it to comrpess debugging information).
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> More technical details are available in the CR: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292818
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> Those changes include a re-organisation of fields' flags, splitting the previous heterogeneous AccessFlags field into three distincts flag categories: immutable flags from the class file, immutable fields defined by the JVM, and finally mutable flags defined by the JVM.
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> The SA, CI, and JVMCI, which all used to access the old FieldInfo array, have been updated too to deal with the new FieldInfo format.
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> Tested with mach5, tier 1 to 7.
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> Thank you.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: bfb812a8
Author:    Frederic Parain <fparain at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/bfb812a8ff8bca70aed7695c73f019ae66ac6f33
Stats:     1790 lines in 54 files changed: 927 ins; 483 del; 380 mod

8292818: replace 96-bit representation for field metadata with variable-sized streams

Co-authored-by: John R Rose <jrose at openjdk.org>
Co-authored-by: Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org>
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, cjplummer, dnsimon

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12855