On 05/21/2013 09:29 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
When doing heap iteration with JVMTI, the spec requires callbacks from the VM 
to the agent identifying the signers and protection domain references. This is 
what tagMap does, see jvmtiTagMap.cpp:2464.

As long as it it still possible for JVMTI to find these references (with 
ik->protection_domain() and ik->signers()), I think it's ok.

Okay. Thanks for the quick answer. I was going to rip this out (rats, now I can't). I can get to both protection domain and signers through the mirror.

We are working on moving the signers completely to the jdk and not having the jvm know about them at all. Then we can't find the signers through this interface. Should we file a CCC request to change the JVMTI spec then?

Thanks,
Coleen


/Staffan


On 21 maj 2013, at 14:52, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillim...@oracle.com> 
wrote:

I found during code review comment editing for my change that removes signers 
and protection domain from the InstanceKlass, that JVMTI code seems to have 
some sort of call back and knowledge of these fields in instanceKlass.

          </constant>
          <constant id="JVMTI_REFERENCE_SIGNERS" num="5">
            Reference from a class to its signers array.
          </constant>
          <constant id="JVMTI_REFERENCE_PROTECTION_DOMAIN" num="6">
            Reference from a class to its protection domain.


If I remove these, will it cause incompatibilities?   It's used during 
jvmtiTagMap.cpp (whatever that's doing).

Thanks,
Coleen

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