On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:02:40 GMT, Dean Long <dl...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Move immutable nmethod's data from CodeCache to C heap. It includes 
>> `dependencies, nul_chk_table, handler_table, scopes_pcs, scopes_data, 
>> speculations, jvmci_data`. It amounts for about 30% (optimized VM) of space 
>> in CodeCache.
>> 
>> Use HotSpot's `os::malloc()` to allocate memory in C heap for immutable 
>> nmethod's data. Bail out compilation if allocation failed.
>> 
>> Shuffle fields order and change some fields size from 4 to 2 bytes to avoid 
>> nmethod's header size increase.
>> 
>> Tested tier1-5, stress,xcomp
>> 
>> Our performance testing does not show difference.
>> 
>> Example of updated `-XX:+PrintNMethodStatistics` output is in JBS comment.
>
> It only makes sense if the immutable data heap is not also used for other 
> critical resources.  If malloc or metaspace were used as the immutable data 
> heap, normally failures in those heaps are fatal, because other critical 
> resources (monitors, classes, etc) are allocated from there, so any failure 
> means the JVM is about to die.  There's no reason to find a fall-back method 
> to allocate a new nmethod in that case.

Just to be clear @dean-long , you're saying failure to allocate immutable data 
in the C heap should result in a fatal error? Makes sense to me as the VM must 
indeed be very close to crashing anyway in that case. It also, obviates the 
need for propagating `out_of_memory_error` to JVMCI code.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18984#issuecomment-2081427477

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