RFR(XS): JDK-8199780: SetMemory0 and CopyMemory0 in unsafe.cpp need to resolve their operands (original) (raw)

Roman Kennke rkennke at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 15:40:32 UTC 2018

Am 20.03.2018 um 12:00 schrieb Erik Österlund:

Hi Roman,

On 2018-03-20 11:36, Roman Kennke wrote: Same reason as splitting resolve -> resolveforread/resolveforwrite in other routines: being able to distinguish read and write access. Also, I'd rather be careful to put this stuff in central places that might over-cover it. It sounds like the motivation for this in my opinion more fragile call site chasing code is optimization. What is the performance difference? Has this showed up in any profiles? Whenever robustness is traded for performance, it would be great to have some understanding about how much performance was lost.

I don't have numbers. But it is not hard to see that copying potentially large arrays twice has some impact. It may only really matter in interpreter and C1, because C2 would most likely intrinsify anything that would show up in profiles, but this would still amount to startup time penalty I would think. I don't really intend to trade robustness for performance: my goal is to make a robust API that also allows GCs to be efficient.

I've missed UnsafeCopySwapMemory0, good find (has this been added recently?). I'll add Access calls there, and meditate a little bit how to put this into a more central place to avoid having to fix this for every code change in unsafe.cpp ;-) No, this has been around for at least 2 years. In this file, address resolution is consistently done with indexoopfromfieldoffsetlong, so I think if you want to play it safe (and I know I would), then I would put the Access<>::resolve in there, and leave the rest of the call sites the way they are.

It seems that index_oop_from_field_offset_long() is otherwise only used for the non-heap paths (i.e. when p == NULL). Well I guess it's ok to put the resolve() there for now. Are those methods also meant to do native memory copies/fills when getting src/dst == NULL ? If so, then this new revision fixes the resolve() for those cases as well.

Diff: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/JDK-8199780/webrev.01.diff/ Full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/JDK-8199780/webrev.01/

Better now?

Assuming we can reach an agreement about JDK-8199801: Finer grained primitive arrays bulk access barriers, I'd probably also split index_oop_from_field_offset_long() into versions for read and write. Might that be acceptable?

Roman

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