Will GC lose some locking infomation during compaction?

[Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna]

init_mark() sets the mark-word into a "prototypical" state, and this 
suffices, as you surmised,
for the large majority of objects but not for all, namely for locked 
objects, biased objects and
those whose hashcodes have been computed.
Recall, however, that during the marking phase the we evacuated thse
"non-prototypical" mark words into a pair of buffers. These spooled 
mark-words
are used later to restore the evacuated mark words. Look for 
"should_preserve_mark_word()"
or similar (I do not have a workspace handy to get you the exact name).

-- ramki

Colin(Du Li) wrote:
> Hello.
> I have two questions about GC's compaction phase.
> 1. During the compaction, after GC copies a compacted object to the its
> location, it always calls "init_mark" on this object. I think "init_mark"
> will cause the object to be "unlocked". If the object is "locked" before
> compaction, will the locking information be lost after compaction?
> 2. If the compacted object has enter a monitor (using "moniterenter"), GC
> moves it to new location, then how can GC update the monitor?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Colin
>