On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:57:09 GMT, Ioi Lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> This PR loads the classes for the boot/platform/app loaders with >> `AOTLinkedClassBulkLoader::preload_classes()`. This happens at the very >> beginning of `vmClasses::resolve_all()`, before any Java code is executed. >> >> - We essentially iterate over all the classes inside the >> `AOTLinkedClassTable` and adds them into the system dictionary using the new >> method `SystemDictionary::preload_class()`. >> - `SystemDictionary::preload_class(..., k)` is lightweight because it's >> called in a single thread after all super types of `k` have been loaded. So >> most of the complicated work (such as place holders, circularity detection, >> etc) in `SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null(..., k)` can be skipped. We also >> don't need to call into `ClassLoader::load_class()` as the boot/platform/app >> loaders are well-behaved. >> - In the assembly phase, we record the mirror, package, protection domain, >> code source, etc, of these classes. So there's no need to programmatically >> create them in the production run. See `HeapShared::copy_java_mirror()` and >> also changes in ClassLoader.java and SecureClassLoader.java. > > Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit > since the last revision: > > @ashu-mehra comment - > AOTLinkedClassBulkLoader::link_or_init_javabase_classes() should also call > exit_on_exception()
lgtm ------------- Marked as reviewed by asmehra (Committer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26375#pullrequestreview-3254807664
