Previously, loading an arbitrary 32-bit constant required up to four
instructions (128 bytes), since we did so one byte at a time via
immediate-mode operations.
The preferred way to load constants on ARM is via PC-relative
addressing, but this is challenging because immediate memory offsets
are limited to 4096 bytes in either direction. We frequently need to
compile methods which are larger than 4096, or even 8192, bytes, so we
must intersperse code and data if we want to use PC-relative loads
everywhere.
This commit enables pervasive PC-relative loads by handling the
following cases:
1. Method is shorter than 4096 bytes: append data table to end
2. Method is longer than 4096 bytes, but no basic block is longer
than 4096 bytes: insert data tables as necessary after blocks, taking
care to minimize the total number of tables
3. Method is longer than 4096 bytes, and some blocks are longer than
4096 bytes: split large basic blocks and insert data tables as above
Previously, we waited until the next GC to do this, but that can be
too long for workloads which create a lot of short-lived threads but
don't do much allocation.
This requires adding LinkRegister to the list of reserved registers,
since it must be preserved in the thunk code generated by
compileDirectInvoke. An alternative would be to explicitly preserve
it in that special case, but that would complicate the code quite a
bit.
All the tests are passing for openjdk-src builds, but the non-src
openjdk build is crashing and there's trouble loading time zone info
from the embedded java.home directory.
This allows OpenJDK to access time zone data which is normally found
under java.home, but which we must embed in the executable itself to
create a self-contained build. The VM intercepts various file
operations, looking for paths which start with a prefix specified by
the avian.embed.prefix property and redirecting those operations to an
embedded JAR.
For example, if avian.embed.prefix is "/avian-embedded", and code
calls File.exists() with a path of
"/avian-embedded/javahomeJar/foo.txt", the VM looks for a function
named javahomeJar via dlsym, calls the function to find the memory
region containing the embeded JAR, and finally consults the JAR to see
if the file "foo.txt" exists.
sun.misc.Unsafe.getUnsafe expects a null result if the class loader is
the boot classloader and will throw a SecurityException otherwise
(whereas it should really be checking both for null and comparing
against the system classloader). However, just returning null
whenever the loader is the boot loader can cause trouble for embedded
apps which put everything in the boot loader, including application
resources.
Therefore, we only return null if it's the boot loader and we're being
called from Unsafe.getUnsafe.
As described in readme.txt, a standalone OpenJDK build embeds all
libraries, classes, and other files needed at runtime in the resulting
binary, eliminating dependencies on external resources.
Rather than try to support mixing Avian's core classes with those of
an external class library -- which necessitates adding a lot of stub
methods which throw UnsupportedOperationExceptions, among other
comprimises -- we're looking to support such external class libraries
in their unmodified forms. The latter strategy has already proven
successful with OpenJDK's class library. Thus, this commit removes
the stub methods, etc., which not only cleans up the code but avoids
misleading application developers as to what classes and methods
Avian's built-in class library supports.
We now consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable to determine where
to find the system library JARs and SOs. Ultimately, we'll want to
support self-contained build, but this allows Avian to behave like a
conventional libjvm.so.
The main changes in this commit ensure that we don't hold the global
class lock when doing class resolution using application-defined
classloaders. Such classloaders may do their own locking (in fact,
it's almost certain), making deadlock likely when mixed with VM-level
locking in various orders.
Other changes include a fix to avoid overflow when waiting for
extremely long intervals and a GC root stack mapping bug.
The biggest change in this commit is to split the system classloader
into two: one for boot classes (e.g. java.lang.*) and another for
application classes. This is necessary to make OpenJDK's security
checks happy.
The rest of the changes include bugfixes and additional JVM method
implementations in classpath-openjdk.cpp.
