8185505: AArch64: Port AOT (original) (raw)

Vladimir Kozlov vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com
Mon Apr 23 18:11:22 UTC 2018

On 4/23/18 3:38 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

On 04/23/2018 08:14 AM, Yang Zhang wrote:

I have tested the patches in my environment. AOT test cases in jtreg are passed, and there aren't new failed cases in hotspot jtreg on no matter aarch64 or x86 platform. But when using jaotc to compile java.base with an option "--compile-for-tiered", there is an overflow error on aarch64 platform. There isn't such an error on x86 platform. Yep, I know that. It's because there is a 30-bit limit in the range of a branch, and if we have a very large text section the offset to the PLT stub may be out of range. There is some logic in the GNU linker to handle this, and I'll haver a look at how it works. I don't want to hold up this patch for the overflow issue for two reasons. Firstly, if you use such a huge AOT-compiled binary your performance will suffer greatly. It makes much more sense to compile only what you need because otherwise your startup time will actually be slower than not using AOT compilation at all. Secondly, I think it will require some reworking of the way that the AOT compiler works to fix this, and I'd rather do that in a later patch.

Yes, I agree with this.

Thanks, Vladimir

Thank you.

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