RFR 8229539: [lworld] Incorrect result of sorting test with -XX:ValueArrayElemMaxFlatSize=0

David Simms david.simms at oracle.com
Thu Aug 29 14:46:36 UTC 2019


Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229539

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsimms/valhalla/8229539/

"ObjArrayKlass::copy_array()" had implemented it's own copy logic just 
so it could enforce "null-free" array copy (which happens in 
ObjArrayKlass when flattening is disabled). There was bug in the copy 
code for *conjoint overlapping copies* (i.e. broke System.arraycopy()). 
Rather than "fix" the logic, I removed it completely, and with Erik 
Österlund's help added a new decorator to the Access API: 
"ARRAYCOPY_NOTNULL" (pushing down the null check into the existing API, 
reduce the amount of "special code", or simply duplicated code).

I did note that the same bug exists for valueArrayKlass, this is now 
fixed as part of the patch. Said fix is temporary though, in that we 
should start moving to using the Access API for value stores. I limited 
the scope of this patch to the immediate bug fix.

Whilst adding some new tests, I noted some really old code use 
"_WithField" and various javac compiler flags that are no longer 
required. So I took the opportunity to clean out some of those.

Cheers

/David Simms







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