RFR (S): 8192003: Refactor weak references in StringTable to use the Access API

Erik Osterlund erik.osterlund at oracle.com
Thu Nov 30 16:17:44 UTC 2017


Hi Per,

Thanks for the review.

/Erik

> On 30 Nov 2017, at 16:43, Per Lidén <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Looks good!
> 
> /Per
> 
>> On 30 Nov 2017, at 14:44, Erik Österlund <erik.osterlund at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Per,
>> 
>> Thank you for reviewing this.
>> 
>> New full webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8192003/webrev.01/
>> 
>> New incremental webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8192003/webrev.00_01/
>> 
>>> On 2017-11-30 11:32, Per Liden wrote:
>>> Hi Erik,
>>> 
>>>> On 2017-11-28 17:50, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> The StringTable contains weak references to oops. Today the weak
>>>> semantics is managed using explicit calls to G1 SATB enqueue barriers.
>>>> 
>>>> Now that the Access API is available, it should be used instead as it is
>>>> more modular.
>>>> 
>>>> This change fixes that by making these oops ON_PHANTOM_OOP_REF with a
>>>> corresponding AS_NO_KEEPALIVE accessor when we do not want to keep it
>>>> alive, much like my previous changes to other weak tables.
>>>> 
>>>> Webrev:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8192003/webrev.00/
>>> 
>>> share/classfile/javaClasses.inline.hpp
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 57 typeArrayOop java_lang_String::value_no_keepalive(oop java_string) {
>>> 58   assert(initialized && (value_offset > 0), "Must be initialized");
>>> 59   assert(is_instance(java_string), "must be java_string");
>>> 60   oop value = HeapAccess<AS_NO_KEEPALIVE>::oop_load_at(java_string, value_offset);
>>> 61   return (typeArrayOop)value;
>>> 62 }
>>> 
>>> How about pushing this barrier down to oopDesc, with a oopDesc::obj_field_special_access<DecoratorSet D>(...) function?
>> 
>> Sounds doable. Fixed. (Although I called the method just "obj_field_special", hope nobody minds...)
>> 
>>> 
>>> 76   typeArrayOop value = java_lang_String::value_no_keepalive(java_string);
>>> 77   assert(initialized, "Must be initialized");
>>> 78   assert(is_instance(java_string), "must be java_string");
>>> 
>>> Looks like you accidentally moved the value_no_keepalive() call above the asserts?
>> 
>> Fixed.
>> 
>>> 
>>> share/classfile/stringTable.cpp
>>> -------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 155       oop string = string_object_no_keepalive(l);
>>> 156       if (java_lang_String::equals(string, name, len)) {
>>> 157         return string_object(l);
>>> 158       }
>>> 
>>> Can we please add a comment here, saying that returning "string" would be very bad, or maybe even fold this a bit, so that no one will be tempted to ever return that value, something like:
>>> 
>>> if (java_lang_String::equals(string_object_no_keepalive(l), name, len)) {
>>>   // Comment saying why we must call string_object() here...
>>>   return string_object(l);
>>> }
>> 
>> Fixed.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Erik
>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> Per
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Bug:
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8192003
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> /Erik
>> 
> 



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