RFR(L): More migration to the L-world

[Frederic Parain]

Karen,

Thank you for your review.
I’ve pushed the changeset with the modifications you recommended below and
additional fixes in runtime tests source code because of the recent changes in
javac related to the language syntax for withfield.

Fred


> On Mar 6, 2018, at 18:06, Karen Kinnear <KAREN.KINNEAR at ORACLE.COM> wrote:
> 
> Frederic,
> 
> Thank you so much for the changes. Go ahead and push them.
> 
> Delighted that with these changes other can make their changes
> Mr Simms - arrays
> Harold - class file parser
> Tobias, Roland - JIT changes
> 
> So many thanks for the original push and for this one done so quickly
> 
> Couple of minor comments/questions for future:
> 1. fieldInfo.hpp 
>    comments 57-63 - later can you add FLATTENED bit to diagram
>    FIELDINFO_FLATTENED_OFFSET
>       - could you possibly rename to FIELDINFO_TAG_FLATTENED and define as 4 and use it the
>         way TAG types are used today, i.e. |= TAG…
>       - or rename it to FIELDINFO_FLATTENED_SHIFT and use it as you do today
> 
> 2. cpCache.cpp
>  line 142: is_flatten -> is_flattened
>  and change set_field argument from is_flatten -> is_flattened
>  maybe change cpCache.hpp line 230 argument from is_flatten -> is_flattened and change comment also
> 
> thanks,
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Frederic Parain <frederic.parain at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Please review the following patch:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~fparain/field_flattening/webrev.00/index.html
>> 
>> This patch was started as a fix for field flattening but it ended
>> being an omnibus patch addressing the following issues:
>> - Fixed value types runtime tests accordingly to the new language
>>   support in javac
>> - Fixed storage and propagation of the ACC_FLATTENABLE flag in JVM
>>   meta-data
>> - Fixed value flattening for value fields with the ACC_FLATTENABLE
>>   flag set
>> - Fixed uninitialized value for fields with ACC_FLATTENABLE flag set
>> - Fixed klass initialization sequence for ACC_FLATTENABLE support
>> - Implemented flattenable semantic for value fields with
>>   ACC_FLATTENABLE flag set
>> - Added test to verify flattenable semantic
>> - Fixed a bug in the verifier (withfield)
>> 
>> 
>> With this patch, most tests in the runtime/valhalla/valuetypes
>> directory now pass in interpreted mode. Only 3 tests still fail,
>> 2 because of the value array code that has not been migrated to
>> the L-world, 1 because of the Bytecode API which has not been
>> migrated either.
>> 
>> Builds and tests (TEST=hotspot_valhalla_runtime) have been run on
>> Linux/X64 and MacOSX/X64.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>