On Fri, 16 May 2025 12:18:42 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change uses a ConcurrentHashTable to associate Method* with jmethodID, 
> instead of an indirection.  JNI is deprecated in favor of using Panama to 
> call methods, so I don't think we're concerned about performance going 
> forward.  JVMTI uses a lot of jmethodIDs but there aren't any performance 
> tests for JVMTI, but running vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti with in product build with 
> and without this change had no difference in time.
> 
> The purpose of this change is to remove the memory leak when you unload 
> classes: we were leaving the jmethodID memory just in case JVMTI code still 
> had references to that jmethodID and instead of crashing, should get nullptr. 
>  With this change, if JVMTI looks up a jmethodID, we've removed it from the 
> table and will return nullptr.  Redefinition and the 
> InstanceKlass::_jmethod_method_ids is somewhat complicated.  When a method 
> becomes "obsolete" in redefinition, which means that the code in the method 
> is changed, afterward creating a jmethodID from an "obsolete" method will 
> create a new entry in the InstanceKlass table.  This mechanism increases the 
> method_idnum to do this.  In the future maybe we could throw 
> NoSuchMethodError if you try to create a jmethodID out of an obsolete method 
> and remove all this code.  But that's not in this change.
> 
> Tested with tier1-4, 5-7.

Also, this was @fisk 's idea.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25267#issuecomment-2967389860

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