On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:38:57 GMT, Roman Kennke <rken...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This is the main body of the JEP 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental).
>>
>> It is also a follow-up to #20640, which now also includes (and supersedes)
>> #20603 and #20605, plus the Tiny Class-Pointers parts that have been
>> previously missing.
>>
>> Main changes:
>> - Introduction of the (experimental) flag UseCompactObjectHeaders. All
>> changes in this PR are protected by this flag. The purpose of the flag is to
>> provide a fallback, in case that users unexpectedly observe problems with
>> the new implementation. The intention is that this flag will remain
>> experimental and opt-in for at least one release, then make it on-by-default
>> and diagnostic (?), and eventually deprecate and obsolete it. However, there
>> are a few unknowns in that plan, specifically, we may want to further
>> improve compact headers to 4 bytes, we are planning to enhance the Klass*
>> encoding to support virtually unlimited number of Klasses, at which point we
>> could also obsolete UseCompressedClassPointers.
>> - The compressed Klass* can now be stored in the mark-word of objects. In
>> order to be able to do this, we are add some changes to GC forwarding (see
>> below) to protect the relevant (upper 22) bits of the mark-word. Significant
>> parts of this PR deal with loading the compressed Klass* from the mark-word.
>> This PR also changes some code paths (mostly in GCs) to be more careful when
>> accessing Klass* (or mark-word or size) to be able to fetch it from the
>> forwardee in case the object is forwarded.
>> - Self-forwarding in GCs (which is used to deal with promotion failure) now
>> uses a bit to indicate 'self-forwarding'. This is needed to preserve the
>> crucial Klass* bits in the header. This also allows to get rid of
>> preserved-header machinery in SerialGC and G1 (Parallel GC abuses
>> preserved-marks to also find all other relevant oops).
>> - Full GC forwarding now uses an encoding similar to compressed-oops. We
>> have 40 bits for that, and can encode up to 8TB of heap. When exceeding 8TB,
>> we turn off UseCompressedClassPointers (except in ZGC, which doesn't use the
>> GC forwarding at all).
>> - Instances can now have their base-offset (the offset where the field
>> layouter starts to place fields) at offset 8 (instead of 12 or 16).
>> - Arrays will now store their length at offset 8.
>> - CDS can now write and read archives with the compressed header. However,
>> it is not possible to read an archive that has been written with an opposite
>> setting of UseCompactObjectHeaders. Some build machinery is added so that
>> _co...
>
> Roman Kennke has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> Revert accidental change of UCOH default
src/hotspot/share/cds/filemap.cpp line 2457:
> 2455: compressed_oops(),
> compressed_class_pointers());
> 2456: if (compressed_oops() != UseCompressedOops ||
> compressed_class_pointers() != UseCompressedClassPointers) {
> 2457: log_info(cds)("Unable to use shared archive.\nThe saved state of
> UseCompressedOops and UseCompressedClassPointers is "
The promotion of this CDS log line from `info` to `warning` triggers false
failures in the `test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/intrinsics/bmi` tests when running
them with `-XX:-UseCompressedClassPointers`. These tests expect the standard
output of different JVM runs to be identical, but the timestamps in the log
messages tend to differ. I suggest adjusting the test configuration so that log
timestamps are simply omitted, as in [this
patch](https://github.com/robcasloz/jdk/commit/48f6e90ef6e0a71b55df536ed04a8b72130b5ea9)
(feel free to merge it as-is or with any further changes you may find
necessary).
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20677#discussion_r1756699774
