On Fri, 12 May 2023 17:27:25 GMT, Roman Kennke <rken...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is the main body of the JEP 450: Compact Object Headers (Experimental).
> 
> Main changes:
>  - Introduction of the (experimental) flag UseCompactObjectHeaders. All 
> changes in this PR are protected by this flag.
>  - The compressed Klass* can now be stored in the mark-word of objects. In 
> order to be able to do this, we are building on #10907, #13582 and #13779 to 
> protect the relevant (upper 32) bits of the mark-word. Significant parts of 
> this PR deal with loading the compressed Klass* from the mark-word, and 
> dealing with (monitor-)locked objects. When the object is monitor-locked, we 
> load the displaced mark-word from the monitor, and load the compressed Klass* 
> from there. This PR also changes some code paths (mostly in GCs) to be more 
> careful when accessing Klass* (or mark-word or size) to be able to fetch it 
> from the forwardee in case the object is forwarded, and/or reach through to 
> the monitor when the object is locked by a monitor.
>  - The identity hash-code is narrowed to 25 bits.
>  - Instances can now have their base-offset (the offset where the field 
> layouter starts to place fields) at offset 8 (instead of 12 or 16).
>  - Arrays will can now store their length at offset 8. Due to alignment 
> restrictions, array elements will still start at offset 16. #11044 will 
> resolve that restriction and allow array elements to start at offset 12 
> (except for long, double and uncompressed oops, which are still required to 
> start at an element-aligned offset).
>  - CDS can now write and read archives with the compressed header. However, 
> it is not possible to read an archive that has been written with an opposite 
> setting of UseCompactObjectHeaders.
> 
> Testing:
>  (+UseCompactObjectHeaders tests are run with the flag hard-patched into the 
> build, to also catch @flagless tests, and to avoid mismatches with CDS - see 
> above.)
>  - [x] tier1 (x86_64)
>  - [x] tier2 (x86_64)
>  - [x] tier3 (x86_64)
>  - [ ] tier4 (x86_64)
>  - [x] tier1 (aarch64)
>  - [x] tier2 (aarch64)
>  - [x] tier3 (aarch64)
>  - [ ] tier4 (aarch64)
>  - [ ] tier1 (x86_64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier2 (x86_64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier3 (x86_64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier4 (x86_64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier1 (aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier2 (aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier3 (aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders
>  - [ ] tier4 (aarch64) +UseCompactObjectHeaders

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13961

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