RFR: 8353597: Refactor handling VM options for AOT cache input and output

Ioi Lam iklam at openjdk.org
Thu Apr 3 04:09:28 UTC 2025


Since [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking](https://openjdk.org/jeps/483), VM options such as `-XX:AOTCache `are implemented as aliases of "classical" CDS options such as `-XX:SharedArchiveFile`.

In anticipation of the [JEP: Ahead-of-time Command Line Ergonomics](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350022), we should refactor the code that deals with the AOT options. Specifically, as we expect the JVM to be able to load from an "input AOT cache" and write to an "output AOT cache", we should clearly identify the input and output caches in separate APIs:


const char* CDSConfig::input_static_archive_path();
const char* CDSConfig::input_dynamic_archive_path();
const char* CDSConfig::output_archive_path();


This PR also cleans up the code by:
- renaming a few function to reflect what they actually do
- moving more "config" management code into cdsConfig.cpp

There's also a behavioral bug fix: before this PR, `-XX:AOTCache` was handled by the `ergo_init_classic_archive_paths()` function, which allows two files to be specified. E.g., `java -XX:AOTCache=static.jsa:dynamic.jsa`. That's because `-XX:AOTCache` was implemented as an alias of `-XX:SharedArchiveFile`, and the latter allows this usage.

However, this behavior is not specified in JEP 483. Allowing two files in -XX:AOTCache will cause unnecessary complexity when we implement [JDK-8353598: Allow AOT cache to be used in training run](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8353598). Therefore, I added new test cases to disallow the use of two files.  This also means that we don't need to modify  the already over-complicated `ergo_init_classic_archive_paths()` for the AOT use cases

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Depends on: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24272

Commit messages:
 - Minimized changes in ergo_init_classic_archive_paths()
 - Clean up CDS input/output path handling

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24401/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=24401&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8353597
  Stats: 304 lines in 15 files changed: 156 ins; 55 del; 93 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24401.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/24401/head:pull/24401

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24401


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