8315559: Delay TempSymbol cleanup to avoid symbol table churn

[olivergillespie]

Hi all,

This pull request contains a backport of commit d23f4f12 from the openjdk/jdk repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Oli Gillespie on 4 Dec 2023 and was reviewed by Coleen Phillimore, Kim Barrett and Aleksey Shipilev.

Thanks!

The backport is not clean. symbolHandle does not exist in 17, so I put the same functionality in symbolTable where TempNewSymbol resides for 17. The functionality itself is essentially identical, with the other change being that maybe_decrement_refcount helper also does not exist, so I just added a null check.
test/hotspot/gtest/classfile/test_placeholders.cpp does not exist, so it didn't need to be fixed. test_symbolTable.cpp failed as expected before fixing, and applied cleanly.

Testing on the original benchmark confirms this fixes the performance regression:

java -Xmx1G -Xms1G -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -jar dacapo-9.120-MR1.jar --size large --iterations 30 pmd

Before:
...
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 pmd PASSED in 1072 msec =====

After:
...
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 pmd PASSED in 1013 msec =====

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Issue

• JDK-8315559: Delay TempSymbol cleanup to avoid symbol table churn (Bug - P3 - Approved)

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• Paul Hohensee (@phohensee - Reviewer)
• Aleksey Shipilev (@shipilev - Reviewer)

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• 1ce0c63: 8324646: Avoid Class.forName in SecureRandom constructor

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This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

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/approval request Fixes non-trivial performance regression in class-loading (dacapo pmd). Not clean due to file movement but simple to merge. Confirmed that the performance regression is present before the change and fixed after, using the original benchmark. Medium risk as it affects Symbol creation, but has been working in tip and 21 for a few months with no associated issues.

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8315559: The approval request has been created successfully.

[shipilev]

Looks fine to me.

[GoeLin]

I'll approve this for the October update.

[olivergillespie]

Cool, thanks!

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[olivergillespie]

(keepalive)

[olivergillespie]

/integrate

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/sponsor

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Going to push as commit 1b807f9.
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