On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:59:48 GMT, Marc Chevalier <[email protected]> wrote:

> When regenerating 
> `test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/valhalla/inlinetypes/TestMismatchHandling.jcod`, 
> the preload attribute are back, after being removed in [8325660: [lworld] 
> Update C2 to support new value construction scheme from JEP 
> 401](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325660). This change basically 
> disabled the test 
> `test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/valhalla/inlinetypes/TestMismatchHandling.java`. 
> It is not quite clear why the test broke in between, but it doesn't work now! 
> It seems there are two problems.
> 
> The symptom is a wrong execution: we get a null pointer exception, when the 
> pointer is clearly not null. The setup is around a call where the callee 
> takes a value object as parameter (non-receiver), but the method happens to 
> be mismatch, as detailed in [8301007: [lworld] Handle mismatches of the 
> preload attribute in the calling 
> convention](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301007). The caller is 
> C2-compiled, the callee is interpreted.
> 
> The caller is correctly compiled to pass a pointer to the callee, but the 
> adapter is expecting a scalar convention, and interpret everything wrong, 
> leading to the wrong execution.
> 
> First problem is that optimized virtual calls are wrongly expected to never 
> use the non-scalar convention:
> https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/blob/lworld/src/hotspot/share/runtime/sharedRuntime.cpp#L1374-L1376
> 
> This fixes the original problems, but create a lot more! Well, just flavor of 
> the same thing.
> 
> They all come from piggybacking on the `evol_method` dependency that is used 
> for JVMTI. This have various side effects that makes the code fail assertions 
> a bit everywhere. Overall, dependencies coming from breakpoints are confused 
> with some coming from mismatch calling convention, and some functions are 
> used in both context, but not all. For instance (I might be a blurry on the 
> details), it happens that a function is marked as having a mismatch calling 
> convention, but later, some JVMTI related code will read the dependency as 
> the existence of breakpoints (or something related), and refuse to compile 
> it, making the test fail with `AbortVMOnCompilationFailure`. Distinguishing 
> the cases becomes too complicated: while we can probably tell whether we 
> added the dependency for JVMTI- or convention-related reasons, it is painful 
> to propagate what we are looking for down the chain of calls. The best, and 
> simplest, way is to introduce a new kind of dependency for calling convention 
> mismatch
 . It mostly behaves live the `evol_method` but it's not the sa...

src/hotspot/share/code/nmethod.hpp line 1066:

> 1064:   // Used for fast breakpoint support if only_calling_convention is 
> false;
> 1065:   // used for updating the calling convention if true.
> 1066:   bool is_dependent_on_method(Method* dependee, bool 
> only_calling_convention);

I'm not really happy about this `bool only_calling_convention`. I'd rather like 
a `Dependencies::DepType` instead because it is only used in

Dependencies::DepType dep_type = only_calling_convention ? 
Dependencies::mismatch_calling_convention : Dependencies::evol_method;


The problem is that then I get a cyclic include between `nmethod.hpp` and 
`dependencies.hpp`. It's probably avoidable, but I need to refactor a bit too 
intensely than I feel comfortable in such a small fix.

test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/valhalla/inlinetypes/TestMismatchHandling.jcod line 
116:

> 114:             0x2AB40007102A9F00;
> 115:             0x0DBB000D59120FB7;
> 116:             0x0011BFB1;

Interesting how `javac` now simplifies it into a "return void".

test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/valhalla/inlinetypes/TestMismatchHandling.jcod line 
996:

> 994:     Attr(#20) { // LoadableDescriptors
> 995:       0x00010015;
> 996:     } // end LoadableDescriptors

That was missing. If we read a bit, it means: there is 0x0001 = 1 class to 
preload. And it is the number 0x0015 = 21, which is `LMyValue1` in the constant 
pool. Which is pretty much what we expect.

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PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1677#discussion_r2428453083
PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1677#discussion_r2428433306
PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1677#discussion_r2428439996

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