RFR: 8135018: AARCH64: Missing memory barriers for CMS collector
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Thu Sep 3 18:30:04 UTC 2015
On 09/03/2015 06:52 PM, Dean Long wrote:
> I think you should include the GC alias too. I thought earlier
> discussions decided that a barrier wasn't needed.
I don't remember exactly that. There was some talk about alternative
algorithms, but I don't think it's come to anything yet. There was a
long discussion about conditional marking, and the StoreLoad barrier
went in.
> In LIRGenerator::do_StoreIndexed, it looks like the barrier is being
> done twice, first in store_check, and again in post_barrier. Doing
> it in post_barrier makes more sense to me than doing it in
> store_check.
Okay, I'll check.
Thanks,
Andrew.
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