Hi,
will there be a
MemoryAddress.move(MemoryAddress src, MemoryAddress dst, long bytes)
method with POSIX memmove(3) semantics at some point?
That would be useful, e.g., to "open a hole" into an array by shifting
existing elements towards higher indices (provided there's room).
MemoryAddress.copy(), with its lower-to-higher semantics, doesn't really
help here, so without move() one would need to code an explicit loop for
such a case, I guess. Not a big deal, just a little bit annoying.
Greetings
Raffaello
On 2019-12-07 00:51, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
On 06/12/2019 18:29, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
Hello,
great job!
I think that the doc of MemoryAddress.copy() should be explicit about
the direction of the copying, so it should either:
Thanks! - I'll rectify the doc to specify lower-to-higher.
Maurizio
* explicitly specify a direction, e.g., lower-to-higher addresses
* or specify that in the case of an overlap the copying is smart
enough to not destroy the src bytes before they have landed in dst
* or accept a negative third argument to encode a higher-to-lower
addresses copying direction.
Greetings
Raffaello
Hi,
as part of the effort to upstream the changes related to JEP 370
(foreign memory access API) [1], I'd like to ask for a code review
for the corresponding core-libs and hotspot changes:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/8234049/
A javadoc for the memory access API is also available here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/memaccess_javadoc/jdk/incubator/foreign/package-summary.html
Note: the patch passes tier1, tier2 and tier3 testing (**)
Here is a brief summary of the changes in java.base and hotspot (the
remaining new files are implementation classes and tests for the new
API):
* ciField.cpp - this one is to trust final fields in the foreign
memory access implementation (otherwise VM doesn't trust memory
segment bounds)
* Modules.gmk - these changes are needed to require that the
incubating module is loaded by the boot loader (otherwise the above
changes are useless)
* library_call.cpp - this one is a JIT compiler change to treat
Thread.currentThread() as a well-known constant - which helps a lot
in the confinement checks (thanks Vlad!)
* various Buffer-related changes; these changes are needed because
the memory access API allows a memory segment to be projected into a
byte buffer, for interop reasons. As such, we need to insert a
liveness check in the various get/put methods. Previously we had an
implementation strategy where a BB was 'decorated' by a subclass
called ScopedBuffer - but doing so required some changes to the BB
API (e.g. making certain methods non-final, so that we could decorate
them). Here I use an approach (which I have discussed with Alan)
which doesn't require any public API changes, but needs to add a
'segment' field in Buffer - and then have constructors which keep
track of this extra parameter.
* FileChannel changes - these changes are required so that we can
reuse the Unmapper class from the MemorySegment implementation, to
deterministically deallocate a mapped memory segment. This should be
a 'straight' refactoring, no change in behavior should occur here.
Please double check.
* VarHandles - this class now provides a factory to create memory
access VarHandle - this is a bit tricky, since VarHandle cannot
really be implemented outside java.base (e.g. VarForm is not public).
So we do the usual trick where we define a bunch of proxy interfaces
(see jdk/internal/access/foreign) have the classes in java.base refer
to these - and then have the implementation classes of the memory
access API implement these interfaces.
* JavaNIOAccess, JavaLangInvokeAccess - because of the above, we need
to provide access to otherwise hidden functionalities - e.g. creating
a new scoped buffer, or retrieving the properties of a memory access
handle (e.g. offset, stride etc.), so that we can implement the
memory access API in its own separate module
* GensrcVarHandles.gmk - these changes are needed to enable the
generation of the new memory address var handle implementations;
there's an helper class per carrier (e.g.
VarHandleMemoryAddressAsBytes, ...). At runtime, when a memory access
var handle is needed, we dynamically spin a new VH implementation
which makes use of the right carrier. We need to spin because the VH
can have a variable number of access coordinates (e.g. depending on
the dimensions of the array to be accessed). But, under the hood, all
the generated implementation will be using the same helper class.
* tests - we've tried to add fairly robust tests, often checking all
possible permutations of carriers/dimensions etc. Because of that,
the tests might not be the easiest to look at, but they have proven
to be pretty effective at shaking out issues.
I think that covers the main aspects of the implementation and where
it differs from vanilla JDK.
P.S.
In the CSR review [2], Joe raised a fair point - which is
MemoryAddress has both:
offset(long) --> move address of given offset
offset() --> return the offset of this address in its owning segment
And this was considered suboptimal, given both methods use the same
name but do something quite different (one is an accessor, another is
a 'wither'). one obvious option is to rename the first to
'withOffset'. But I think that would lead to verbose code (since that
is a very common operation). Other options are to:
* rename offset(long) to move(long), advance(long), or something else
* drop offset() - but then add an overload of MemorySegment::asSlice
which takes an address instead of a plain long offset
I'll leave the choice to the reviewers :-)
Finally, I'd like to thank Mark, Brian, John, Alan, Paul, Vlad,
Stuart, Roger, Joe and the Panama team for the feedback provided so
far, which helped to get the API in the shape it is today.
Cheers
Maurizio
(**) There is one failure, for "java/util/TimeZone/Bug6329116.java" -
but that is unrelated to this patch, and it's a known failing test.
[1] - https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370
[2] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8234050
