Project proposal: Remove the Permanent Generation

[Jon Masamitsu]

Third time but this one is from Coleen.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/metadata5/

Sorry but my previous webrev did not include new files added for
this project.  What you've looked at  before at is accurate but incomplete
in terms of new files.  Please let us know about anything that still
looks odd.

Jon

On 6/4/2012 2:32 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> Tomas.
>
> I put up a second version that I think is slightly
> better (in terms of a cleaner webrev).
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.01
>
> The .00 version had code in it that wouldn't compile
> (from patches that failed) and will be delete in a day or two.
>
> Jon
>
> On 06/04/12 12:06, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>> Tomas,
>>
>> I redid the webrev (overwrote the previous one).  The changes
>> for attachListerner_solaris.cpp that you saw previously are not
>> in the new webrev (i.e., not difference between hotspot-metadata
>> and hotspot-gc).  When you get a chance, could you take
>> a look at a few more files as a second sanity check?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On 06/02/12 02:47, Tomas Hurka wrote:
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> On 2 Jun 2012, at 00:48, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is the webrev for the latest sync with hotspot-gc.   Most 
>>>> changes are cleanups
>>>> or bug fixes.  One large change is the removal of the (unused for a 
>>>> while now)
>>>> perm gen from the generational hierarchy.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/
>>>>
>>>> As we've said the pervasive renaming of data structures will be done
>>>> just before we integrate in order to ease the burden of the syncs.
>>>>
>>>> Now's the time to look at the code in your area of interest.
>>> I just took a brief look at the webrev above and I was surprised by 
>>> the changes in
>>> attachListener_solaris.cpp<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/src/os/solaris/vm/attachListener_solaris.cpp.udiff.html> 
>>>
>>> and 
>>> os_windows.cpp<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6964458/webrev.00/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp.udiff.html>.
>>> It looks like they have nothing to do with the removal of the 
>>> Permanent Generation.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> -- 
>>> Tomas Hurka<mailto:tomas.hurka at oracle.com>
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>>>
>>>
>>>