Hi, Please review the addition of Reference.reachabilityFence contributed by Aleksey, Doug and myself:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-jdk/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-jdk/webrev/> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-hotspot/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8133348-reachability-fence-hotspot/webrev/> The implementation approach marks the method Reference.reachabilityFence as not inline-able, thereby “keeping alive” an object passed to the method until at least after the method call. The testing approach i have taken is to verify that the method does not get inlined either in C1 or C2. The test approach seems fragile (as fragile as the accessor-based test i code-cargo-culted from) but passes ok through JPRT. I could not find a suitable mechanism in WhiteBox. Is there a more reliable mechanism to determine what methods are inlined into a compiled method? There is another testing approach in the VarHandles sandbox: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/sandbox/jdk/rev/433114b32d2d#l2.2 <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/sandbox/jdk/rev/433114b32d2d#l2.2> But i am not confident that the test can be run within a reasonable time and reliably on all platforms and VM modes. Paul.
