RFR (XL) 8155672: Remove instanceKlassHandles and KlassHandles (original) (raw)

coleen.phillimore at oracle.com coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Sun Mar 12 15:32:27 UTC 2017

Summary: Use unhandled pointers for Klass and InstanceKlass, remove handles with no implementation.

These are fairly extensive changes. The KlassHandle types have been dummy types since permgen elimination and were thought to be useful for future features. They aren't, so can be removed (see bug for more details). This allows stricter typing because you can use the more specific type, and using const more. I didn't add const to these changes, because of the cascading effect.

The change isn't hard to review, just tedious. The main bug that I had was redeclaring a type inside a scope, and InstanceKlass::cast(k) can't take a NULL k, whereas instanceKlassHandle ik(THREAD, k) could.

It's so nice being able to single step on gdb without going into KlassHandle constructors!

open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8155672.01/webrev bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155672

Tested with all hotspot jtreg tests, java/lang/invoke tests, java/lang/instrument tests, all closed tonga colocated tests, and JPRT.

I can continue to hold this change for a convenient time for merging purposes with other people's JDK10 changes that they've been holding, or if there are other jdk9 changes that are likely to cause a problem for merging. I'll update the copyrights to 2017 on commit.

Thanks, Coleen

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