On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:28:27 GMT, Joel Sikström <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Embdedded flat contended fields might not be included in the class' OopMap if 
> there are no other oop fields in the holder class.
> 
> Flat fields are handled separately in fieldLayoutBuilder.cpp, resulting in 
> the current `_oop_count` not being updated if a flat field contains oops. 
> This is OK, since the oop fields are handled at a later point in time. 
> However, for contended fields, which are part of the contended group, 
> embedded oop fields are only tracked if: `cg->oop_count() > 0`, which is not 
> guaranteed to be true.
> 
> I've written a test to see if the oop field is included in the class' OopMap 
> and also changed the `_oop_count` field `_has_embedded_oops`, and changed 
> that to a boolean property, which is how we've used it so far.
> 
> Since embedded fields in flat paylods are not tracked in `cg->oop_fields()`, 
> we can't do the assert that is currently there, so I just removed that.
> 
> Testing:
> * New test fails without the fixes in fieldLayoutBuilder and passes with fixes
> * Running Oracle's tier1-3
> 
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I think the implementation looks good, but I wonder if we can simplify even 
more.

src/hotspot/share/classfile/fieldLayoutBuilder.cpp line 178:

> 176:   _oop_fields(nullptr),
> 177:   _contended_group(contended_group),  // -1 means no contended group, 0 
> means default contended group
> 178:   _has_embedded_oops(false) {}

I wonder if we should just remove the `_has_embedded_oops` completely. And just 
unconditionally call `register_embedded_oops`. It already handles an empty (no 
embedded oops) list of sub-blocks. 

It makes the code less complex, but we miss an optimisation in the case where 
we have flattened a lot of values where no fields contains oops.

But seems like the better optimization if this was a problem would be to create 
a list of each raw block with oops, so we only walk those, rather than all if 
one happens to contain an oop.

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PR Review: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2371#pullrequestreview-4182800401
PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2371#discussion_r3148963612

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