On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:08:15 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 mismatc
 h. It mostly behaves live the `evol_met...
>
> Marc Chevalier has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - comment
>  - review

Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Committer).

Thanks for the adjustments - looks great!

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PR Review: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1677#pullrequestreview-3340386092
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1677#issuecomment-3406427727

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