On 8/20/14 8:49 AM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
Do we have any idea how much of a change? Do we care? I'm presuming the
increased debuggability is worth it.

It adds 0-4 additional stack movs in function prologue code which should
have a very low impact, it's only on debug/fastdebug builds.

I missed that this was a non-RELEASE build change in my
original review.

These two blurbs from the MSDN note:

> However, by default in a release build, the register parameters
> will not be written to the stack, into the space that is already
> provided for the parameters. This makes it difficult to debug an
> optimized (release) build of your program.

and

> In a debug build, the stack is always populated with parameters
> passed in registers.

indicate that we shouldn't need this change in our debug/fastdebug
builds. However, you looked at the generated prologue code before
and after turning on this option right?

Does this mean that the MSDN note is not correct for the way that
we do debug and fastdebug builds? We might have some option enabled
that prevents the default /homeparams behavior from working...

Dan



The above block will also apply to an "ia64" build. We don't support that
anymore, but I don't know if any licensees support it.

I've changed the checks in vm.make and WinGammaPlatformVC10.java

Do we need to do anything about the new, but unused  platform to make
lint-like tools not squawk?

I'll open a new bug to clean up the VC7/8/9 files in ProjectCreator.

New webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8027480/webrev.01/

Thanks,
Christian

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel D. Daugherty [mailto:daniel.daughe...@oracle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:48 AM
To: Christian Tornqvist
Cc: hotspot-...@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: RFR(S): 8027480 - Build Windows x64 fastdebug builds using
/homeparams

  > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8027480/webrev.00/

General Comment

The MSDN note says:

  > /homeparams does imply a performance disadvantage, because it  > does
require a cycle to load the register parameters on to the stack.

Do we have any idea how much of a change? Do we care? I'm presuming the
increased debuggability is worth it.

make/windows/makefiles/vm.make
      line 38: !else
      line 39: CXX_FLAGS=$(CXX_FLAGS) /D "ASSERT" /homeparams
      line 40: !endif
          The above block will also apply to an "ia64" build.
          We don't support that anymore, but I don't know if
          any licensees support it.

src/share/tools/ProjectCreator/BuildConfig.java
      No comments.

src/share/tools/ProjectCreator/WinGammaPlatformVC10.java
      line 373: if(!platformName.equals("Win32")) {
      line 374:     addAttr(rv, "AdditionalOptions", "/homeparams");
          The above block will also apply to an "ia64" build.

src/share/tools/ProjectCreator/WinGammaPlatformVC7.java
src/share/tools/ProjectCreator/WinGammaPlatformVC8.java
      Do we need to do anything about the new, but unused
      platform to make lint-like tools not squawk?

Thumbs up.

Dan


On 8/19/14 5:39 PM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
Hi everyone,

This change adds /homeparams
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6exwh0y6.aspx) to compiler
flags when building fastdebug on Windows x64. This causes the compiler
to generate code to spill the first 4 arguments to the stack (they're
normally only passed in registers), which should make it easier to debug.

I also changed the ProjectCreator to enable building with this using
Visual Studio. The size of jvm.dll increases with about 3% (about 504k
increase).
Verified that it builds correctly using Visual Studio and JPRT, the
generation of the spill code has been verified by comparing prologue
code for several functions in the JVM with/without using /homeparams.

Webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8027480/webrev.00/

Bug:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027480

Thanks,

Christian



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