> This is the main body of the JEP 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental). > > It is also a follow-up to #20640, which now also includes (and supersedes) > #20603 and #20605, plus the Tiny Class-Pointers parts that have been > previously missing. > > Main changes: > - Introduction of the (experimental) flag UseCompactObjectHeaders. All > changes in this PR are protected by this flag. The purpose of the flag is to > provide a fallback, in case that users unexpectedly observe problems with the > new implementation. The intention is that this flag will remain experimental > and opt-in for at least one release, then make it on-by-default and > diagnostic (?), and eventually deprecate and obsolete it. However, there are > a few unknowns in that plan, specifically, we may want to further improve > compact headers to 4 bytes, we are planning to enhance the Klass* encoding to > support virtually unlimited number of Klasses, at which point we could also > obsolete UseCompressedClassPointers. > - The compressed Klass* can now be stored in the mark-word of objects. In > order to be able to do this, we are add some changes to GC forwarding (see > below) to protect the relevant (upper 22) bits of the mark-word. Significant > parts of this PR deal with loading the compressed Klass* from the mark-word. > This PR also changes some code paths (mostly in GCs) to be more careful when > accessing Klass* (or mark-word or size) to be able to fetch it from the > forwardee in case the object is forwarded. > - Self-forwarding in GCs (which is used to deal with promotion failure) now > uses a bit to indicate 'self-forwarding'. This is needed to preserve the > crucial Klass* bits in the header. This also allows to get rid of > preserved-header machinery in SerialGC and G1 (Parallel GC abuses > preserved-marks to also find all other relevant oops). > - Full GC forwarding now uses an encoding similar to compressed-oops. We > have 40 bits for that, and can encode up to 8TB of heap. When exceeding 8TB, > we turn off UseCompressedClassPointers (except in ZGC, which doesn't use the > GC forwarding at all). > - Instances can now have their base-offset (the offset where the field > layouter starts to place fields) at offset 8 (instead of 12 or 16). > - Arrays will now store their length at offset 8. > - CDS can now write and read archives with the compressed header. However, > it is not possible to read an archive that has been written with an opposite > setting of UseCompactObjectHeaders. Some build machinery is added so that > _coh variants of CDS archiv...
Roman Kennke has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 54 commits: - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into JDK-8305895-v4 - Fix test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointersEncodingScheme.java - Fix loop on aarch64 - clarify obscure assert in metasapce setup - Rework compressedklass encoding - remove stray debug output - Fixes post 8338526 - Merge commit '597788850041e7272a23714c05ba546ee6080856' into JDK-8305895-v4 - Various touch-ups - Hide log timestamps in test to prevent false failures - ... and 44 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/54595188...2125cd81 ------------- Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20677/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20677&range=16 Stats: 4598 lines in 190 files changed: 3245 ins; 719 del; 634 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20677.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/20677/head:pull/20677 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20677
