On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 17:34:49 GMT, Frederic Parain <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Small patch fixing a missing memory barrier in FlatArrayKlass::copy_array.
>> The unit test covers more scenario where a flat value has to be buffered 
>> before to be written to another heap variable. So far, these tests haven't 
>> shown any other issue (they were run repeatedly 50 times using Mach5).
>> 
>> However, the unit test is quite heavy, testing 5 different scenarios, and 
>> running each for 3 minutes, using all detected cores of the machine each 
>> time. This might qualify this unit test as a "resourcehog" test, it then 
>> should be moved to test/hotspot/jtreg/resourcehogs/
>> 
>> Fred
>
> Frederic Parain has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Add new line at the end

Note that this requirement makes the `flatArrayOopDesc::obj_at` much more 
dangerous to use than the old objArrayOopDesc::obj_at. Every place where we use 
this function and then make a publishing store needs to remember to perform 
this barrier. I wonder if we shouldn't find another, more conspicuous name that 
makes the users / readers aware that this is can be dangerous to use. 
Alternatively, push the barrier into the `obj_at` function?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2183#issuecomment-4009812853

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