On 6/14/06, Robin Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The port to rotor was done by Andrew Gray at ANU, and was based on my
work integrating MMTk into C-based runtimes. The approach used was to
apply a source code transformation to turn the MMTk 'magic' into native
methods (using CNI) on primitive types, and compile MMTk with gcj. It
is described in detail in my honours thesis.
This confirms what I saw in the code. A bunch more pieces are falling
into place. We will probably won't use GCJ or CNI. Instead, I am
thinking of JITing MMTk at boot time just before calling GC init().
This will slow down boot but hopefully not make booting unbearable for
developers. The hope is that it will be easy to put intrinsics into
the JIT, jitrino.jet for all the classes in the unboxed package. Its
sort of "inlining" but not in the traditional sense.
The source transformer code is licensed as public domain, but would need
considerable modification to work on the current MMTk code base. A far
better approach would be to implement the vmmagic types in gcj.
Or with a *.class to binary image compiler mentioned above.
The
bulk of the C code in the interface to Rotor is specific to rotor, and
would need to be re-implemented for DRLVM anyway.
Agreed. It might be nice to take a peek at the Rotor code to get
ideas on how things could be implemented.
The MMTk <-> VM interface is much cleaner these days: as Daniel points
out, MM_Interface defines the JikesRVM -> MMTk interface, and MMTk's
interface to the vm is the package org.mmtk.vm.
I am reading all the interface code now. I hope to have a general
outline of the MMTk to drlvm port in a few days. I would be much
appreciated if you can review it and tell me what to fix.
MMTk is compiled to a
JAR file against stubs for this package, and the directory ext/JikesRVM
contains the JikesRVM-specific implementation of the interface.
Its good to learn this. A first step will be to compile MMTk all by
itself and put all of it in a JAR file.
By the way, do you know how much effort it was to port MMTK to Rotor?
Thanks for all the help.
Weldon
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Weldon Washburn
Intel Middleware Products Division
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