How to disable intrinsics usage for the JIT compiler?

Question

I am doing some performance tests on the JVM, and I would like to measure the impact of intrinsics usage.

I would like to disable the JIT use of intrinsics for some methods without going into the interpreted mode. Is there a way to do that ? Thank you

Tagir Valeev · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-21T11:02:10.527

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Use

java -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:DisableIntrinsic=_<method_name>[,...]

For example

java -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:DisableIntrinsic=_equals,_hashCode

As @apangin noticed, you may use -XX:+PrintIntrinsics first to see which methods are actually intrinsified in your test and disable them.

edited May 21 '15 at 11:02

answered May 21 '15 at 10:50

Tagir Valeev

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It may be even easier to build a custom HotSpot where `Compile::make_vm_intrinsic` always returns NULL to disable all intrinsics at once. – apangin May 21 '15 at 10:56
That's probably an overkill if author just wants to measure some specific thing. But sounds cool! – Tagir Valeev May 21 '15 at 10:59
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Oh, I think there is a simple solution: first use `-XX:+PrintIntrinsics` to print all compiled intrinsics, then `-XX:DisableIntrinsic=` to disable them. – apangin May 21 '15 at 11:01
Added this to the answer. – Tagir Valeev May 21 '15 at 11:02
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BTW, I've created a [table of all JVM intrinsics](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1e9f4cab9f659982df82) – apangin May 21 '15 at 11:29
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@apangin, interesting! Which JVM version is this? I don't see anything which appeared in Java 8 – Tagir Valeev May 21 '15 at 11:33
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Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/78410/discussion-between-tagir-valeev-and-apangin). – Tagir Valeev May 21 '15 at 11:37
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That were JDK 7u80 intrinsics. Now [JDK 8u45 intrinsics](https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc). – apangin May 21 '15 at 11:46
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I have one more question how do you disable all of the intrinsic methods ? – Bionix1441 May 21 '15 at 11:46
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@Bionix1441 Unfortunately there is no such switch in stock JVM. So, you have to either patch JVM or disable them one by one. – apangin May 21 '15 at 12:18
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Okay Thanks you a lot – Bionix1441 May 21 '15 at 12:25
Up-to-date searchable table with all JDK intrinsics split per versions: https://chriswhocodes.com/hotspot_intrinsics_openjdk17.html – Dan M. Jan 24 '22 at 14:38

How to disable intrinsics usage for the JIT compiler?

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