RFR(S): barrier moved due to null checks needs to always fix memory edges
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at redhat.com
Thu Oct 19 08:58:55 UTC 2017
On 10/19/2017 10:24 AM, Roland Westrelin wrote:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/shenandoah/wbatnullcheckfixmem/webrev.00/
>
> This is a crash Aleksey observed. When a null check dominates a write
> barrier, we move the barrier up so the null check becomes an implicit
> null check. When the write barrier is moved up, memory edges must be
> tweaked. Current code doesn't fix memory edges if the memory input to
> the write barrier doesn't change. That's incorrect because the barrier
> might now dominate some uses that it didn't dominate before.
Can confirm, the crash is gone.
Comments:
*) This line is commented, and can be removed?
1973 //ResourceMark rm; // register_new_node makes an array grow
Otherwise looks good.
Thanks,
-Aleksey
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