On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 15:46:31 GMT, Ioi Lam <ik...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Since [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & 
>> Linking](https://openjdk.org/jeps/483), VM options such as `-XX:AOTCache 
>> `are implemented as aliases of "classical" CDS options such as 
>> `-XX:SharedArchiveFile`.
>> 
>> In anticipation of the [JEP: Ahead-of-time Command Line 
>> Ergonomics](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8350022), we should refactor 
>> the code that deals with the AOT options. Specifically, as we expect the JVM 
>> to be able to load from an "input AOT cache" and write to an "output AOT 
>> cache", we should clearly identify the input and output caches in separate 
>> APIs:
>> 
>> 
>> const char* CDSConfig::input_static_archive_path();
>> const char* CDSConfig::input_dynamic_archive_path();
>> const char* CDSConfig::output_archive_path();
>> 
>> 
>> This PR also cleans up the code by:
>> - renaming a few function to reflect what they actually do
>> - moving more "config" management code into cdsConfig.cpp
>> 
>> There's also a behavioral bug fix: before this PR, `-XX:AOTCache` was 
>> handled by the `ergo_init_classic_archive_paths()` function, which allows 
>> two files to be specified. E.g., `java -XX:AOTCache=static.jsa:dynamic.jsa`. 
>> That's because `-XX:AOTCache` was implemented as an alias of 
>> `-XX:SharedArchiveFile`, and the latter allows this usage.
>> 
>> However, this behavior is not specified in JEP 483. Allowing two files in 
>> -XX:AOTCache will cause unnecessary complexity when we implement 
>> [JDK-8353598: Allow AOT cache to be used in training 
>> run](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8353598). Therefore, I added new 
>> test cases to disallow the use of two files.  This also means that we don't 
>> need to modify  the already over-complicated 
>> `ergo_init_classic_archive_paths()` for the AOT use cases
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit 
> since the last revision:
> 
>   more clean up

Changes requested by lmesnik (Reviewer).

test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/cds/appcds/AOTFlags.java line 28:

> 26:  * @test
> 27:  * @summary "AOT" aliases for traditional CDS command-line options
> 28:  * @requires vm.cds & vm.compMode != "Xcomp"

The test completely ignore external VM flags, so it should have  
`@requires vm.flagless `
and no Xcomp exclusion is required.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24401#pullrequestreview-2740946504
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24401#discussion_r2027621201

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