RFR: 8329706: Implement -XX:+AOTClassLinking [v4]

[Ashutosh Mehra]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:26:51 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the 3rd PR for [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737).
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>> **Overview**
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>> - A new `-XX:+AOTClassLinking` flag is added. See [JEP 498](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737) and the [CSR](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8339506) for a discussion of this command-line option, its default value, and its impact on compatibility.
>> - When this flag is enabled during the creation of an AOT cache (aka CDS archive), an `AOTLinkedClassTable` is added to the cache to include all classes that are AOT-linked. For this PR, only classes for the boot/platform/application loaders are eligible. The main logic is in `aotClassLinker.cpp`.
>> - When an AOT archive is loaded in a production run, all classes in the `AOTLinkedClassTable` are loaded into their respective class loaders at the earliest opportunity. The main logic is in `aotLinkedClassBulkLoader.cpp`.
>>   - The boot classes are loaded as part of `vmClasses::resolve_all()`
>>   - The platform/application classes are loaded after the module graph is restored (see changes in `threads.cpp`).
>> - Since all classes in a `AOTLinkedClassTable` are loaded before any user-code is executed, we can resolve constant pool entries that refer to these classes during AOT cache creation. See changes in `AOTConstantPoolResolver::is_class_resolution_deterministic()`.
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>> **All-or-nothing Loading**
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>> - Because AOT-linked classes can refer to each other, using direct C++ pointers, all AOT-linked classes must be loaded together. Otherwise we will have dangling C++ pointers in the class metadata structures. 
>> - During a production run, we check during VM start-up for incompatible VM options that would prevent some of the AOT-linked classes from being loaded. For example:
>>   - If the VM is started with an JVMTI agent that has ClassFileLoadHook capabilities, it could replace some of the AOT-linked classes with alternative versions.
>>   - If the VM is started with certain module options, such as `--patch-module` or `--module`, some AOT-linked classes may be replaced with patched versions, or may become invisible and cannot be loaded into the JVM.
>> - When incompatible VM options are detected, the JVM will refuse to load an AOT cache that has AOT-linked classes. See `FileMapInfo::validate_aot_class_linking()`.
>>   - For simplfication, `FileMapInfo::validate_aot_class_linking()` requires `CDSConfig::is_using_full_module_graph()` to be true. This means that the exa...
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> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   @adinn comments

test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/cds/appcds/jvmti/ClassFileLoadHookTest.java line 110:

> 108:                 "" + ClassFileLoadHook.TestCaseId.SHARING_ON_CFLH_ON);
> 109:         if (out.contains("Using AOT-linked classes: false")) {
> 110:             // We are running with VM options that do not support -XX:+AOTClassLinking

When will we run into this case? Is there a VM option that would silently disable AOTClassLinking in prod run?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20843#discussion_r1756943024