Will GC lose some locking infomation during compaction?

[Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna]

Hi Colin --

Colin(Du Li) wrote:
> Hello, I still have a question.
> Let's say, during compaction, GC moves an object from "old Location" to "new
> location"(compaction top).
> Yes, during the marking phase we evacuated these "non-prototypical" mark
> words into a pair of buffers,  and used later to restore the evacuated mark
> words.
> But GC only restores mark word on object at "old Location", why don't it
> restore mark word on object at "new location"?
>   

Not quite. You are right that at the point during the marking phase when 
the oops & marks are
saved the new location is not known, so the _preserved_oop_stack 
contains the old locations.
However, during the "adjust pointers" phase, we go over the 
preserved_oop_stack and
adjust them so they now refer to the correct "new location" that the 
preserved mark words
will go into. So when comes time to restore the mark words after the 
compaction/copying has
been completed, the preserved_oop_stack holds the right locations into 
which we should
restore the preserved mark words.

-- ramki
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>   
>>>       
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