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Wenyu Zhao authored
This CL adds features to pack/unpack map words. Currently V8 cannot store extra metadata in object headers -- because V8 objects do not have a proper header, but only a map pointer at the start of the object. To store per-object metadata like marking data, a side table is required as the per-object metadata storage. This CL enables V8 to use higher unused bits in a 64-bit map word as per-object metadata storage. Map pointer stores come with an extra step to encode the metadata into the pointer (we call it "map packing"). Map pointer loads will also remove the metadata bits as well (we call it "map packing"). Since the map word is no longer a valid pointer after packing, we also change the tag of the packed map word to make it looks like a Smi. This helps various GC and barrier code to correctly skip them instead of blindly dereferencing this invalid pointer. A ninja flag `v8_enable_map_packing` is provided to turn this map-packing feature on and off. It is disabled by default. * Only works on x64 platform, with `v8_enable_pointer_compression` set to `false` Bug: v8:11624 Change-Id: Ia2bdf79553945e5fc0b0874c87803d2cc733e073 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/2247561Reviewed-by: Ulan Degenbaev <ulan@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Nico Hartmann <nicohartmann@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Toon Verwaest <verwaest@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Georg Neis <neis@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Ulan Degenbaev <ulan@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#73915}
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