On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:22:05 GMT, Ioi Lam <ik...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This PR contains 2 parts
>>
>> - Upstream of Soft/Weak Reference support authored by @macarte from [the
>> Leyden
>> repo](https://github.com/openjdk/leyden/commit/4ca75d156519596e23abc8a312496b7c2f0e0ca5)
>> - New C++ class `AOTReferenceObjSupport` and new Java method
>> `ReferencedKeyMap::prepareForAOTCache()` developed by @iklam on the advice
>> of @fisk from the GC team. These control the lifecycles of reference objects
>> during the assembly phase to simplify the implementation.
>>
>> One problem we faced in this PR is the handling of Reference objects that
>> are waiting for clean up. Currently, the only cached Reference objects that
>> require clean up are the `WeakReferenceKey`s used by `ReferencedKeyMap`
>> (which is used by `MethodType::internTable`):
>>
>> - When the referent of a `WeakReferenceKey` K has been collected, the key
>> will be placed on `Universe::reference_pending_list()`. It's linked to other
>> pending references with the `Reference::discovered` field. At this point, K
>> is still stored in the `ReferencedKeyMap`.
>> - When heapShared.cpp discovered the `ReferencedKeyMap`, it will discover K,
>> and it may also discover other pending references that are not intended for
>> the AOT cache. As a result, we end up caching unnecessary objects.
>>
>> `ReferencedKeyMap::prepareForAOTCache()` avoids the above problem. It goes
>> over all entries in the table:
>>
>> - If an entry has not yet been collected, we make sure it will never be
>> collected.
>> - If an entry has been collected, we remove it from the table
>>
>> Therefore, by the time heapShared.cpp starts scanning the
>> `ReferencedKeyMap`, it will never see any keys that are on the pending list,
>> so we will not see unintended objects.
>>
>> This implementation is the very first step of Reference support in the AOT
>> cache, so we chose a simplified approach that makes no assumptions on when
>> the pending reference list is processed. This is sufficient for the current
>> set of references objects in the AOT cache.
>>
>> In the future, we may relax the implementation to allow for other use cases.
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit
> since the last revision:
>
> @fisk comment -- use proper HeapAccess to load referent; Also refactor
> AOTReferenceObjSupport::is_enabled()
src/hotspot/share/cds/aotReferenceObjSupport.cpp line 122:
> 120: ik->initialize(CHECK);
> 121:
> 122: TempNewSymbol field_name = SymbolTable::new_symbol("N""ULL");
Why "N""ULL", not "NULL"?
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24757#discussion_r2067666542
