Update: Request for reviews (M): 7017124: Fix some VM stats to avoid 32-bit overflow

[Tom Rodriguez]

Looks good.

tom

On Feb 3, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

> Update after reviews.
> Renamed method and moved it outside Atomic class since it is not atomic.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/7017124/webrev.01
> 
> Fixed 7017124: Fix some VM stats to avoid 32-bit overflow
> 
> During long enough time (tens minutes) on modern processors
> some VM statistic 32-bit values overflow. We need to use longs.
> And when a value is long we still have a problem since it is
> incremented not atomically in 32-bit VM.
> 
> Added new method inc_stat_counter() to increment long
> statistic values and use atomic long load and store.
> 
> Fixed several output formats to use FORMAT macros.
> 
> I have to remove v9 check assert from Atomic_move_long() since
> it is called before VM_Version is initialized and C2 is built
> for v9 only anyway.
> 
> I fixed only statistic which was interesting to me.