On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 21:08:05 GMT, Matias Saavedra Silva <matsa...@openjdk.org>
wrote:
>> Currently we exit the VM after static dumping with
>> `MetaspaceShared::exit_after_static_dump()`.
>>
>>
>> // We have finished dumping the static archive. At this point, there may be
>> pending VM
>> // operations. We have changed some global states (such as
>> vmClasses::_klasses) that
>> // may cause these VM operations to fail. For safety, forget these
>> operations and
>> // exit the VM directly.
>> void MetaspaceShared::exit_after_static_dump() {
>> os::_exit(0);
>> }
>>
>>
>> As the comment suggests, the VM state is altered when preparing and
>> performing the static dump, so this change aims to prevent these state
>> changes so the VM can exit normally after the static dump completes. There
>> are three major aspects to this change:
>> 1. Since the resolved references array in the Constant Pool is altered when
>> preparing for a static dump, a "scratch copy" is created and archived
>> instead
>> 2. Symbols are sorted by address and have their hash recalculated. Similarly
>> to point 1, the copies of the symbols that are to be archived have their
>> hashes updated as opposed to the originals.
>> 3. The handling of -Xshare:dump during argument parsing such that the VM can
>> continue and exit normally with an exit code of 0.
>>
>> Verified with tier 1-9 tests.
>
> Matias Saavedra Silva has updated the pull request with a new target base due
> to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains ten additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Merge branch 'master' into remove_exit_after_dump_8306582
> - Calvin comment
> - Ioi comments
> - Refactored KlassToOopHandleTable, Ioi and Alan comments
> - Merge fix
> - Restores java loaders
> - Ioi and David comments
> - Windows fix
> - 8306582: Remove MetaspaceShared::exit_after_static_dump()
Marked as reviewed by ccheung (Reviewer).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14879#pullrequestreview-1557891129
