RFR: 8015107: NPG: Use consistent naming for metaspace concepts

[Coleen Phillimore]

Erik,
Sorry for the delay reviewing this.  It looks good.
Thank you!
Coleen

On 9/6/2013 3:18 AM, Erik Helin wrote:
> On 2013-09-05, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
>> Erik,
>>
>> On 2013-09-04 19:36, Erik Helin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> this patch changes the name of two flags:
>>> - -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers becomes
>>>    -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers (note the 'K' instead of the 'C')
>>> - -XX:ClassMetaspaceSize becomes -XX:CompressedClassSpaceSize
>>>
>>> Background:
>>> These two flags were introduced when metaspace was merged into hs25.
>>> To use a smaller size for the Java object headers, the pointer in the
>>> object header that points to the Klass instance for the object can be 32
>>> bits on a 64-bit system. Such pointers has been called compressed klass
>>> pointers. This is the same concept as compressed oops.
>>>
>>> For the current implementation of compressed class pointers to work, the
>>> Klass instances need to be placed in a continuous virtual memory space.
>>> This virtual memory space was called ClassMetaspace but this patch
>>> introduces the name CompressedClassSpace to emphasize that the concept
>>> is closely related to compressed klass pointers.
>>>
>>> The 'K' in the CompressedKlassPointers and CompressedClassSpace was
>>> changed to a 'C' since the C++ class Klass is an implementation detail
>>> that we do not want to expose to the users.
>>>
>>> I've also added a check in Arguments::parse that checks if the user has
>>> set CompressedClassSpaceSize when compressed class pointers
>>> are _not_ used. If this is the case, then the VM will print a warning. I've
>>> also added a test that verifies this actually happens.
>>>
>>> The change touches a lot of files, but the change in each file is very
>>> small.
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8015107/webrev.00/
>> Thanks for taking care of this.
>> Change looks good to me.
> Thanks!
>
> Erik
>
>> /Mikael
>>
>>> Bug:
>>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8015107
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> - JPRT
>>> - The jtreg tests in hotspot/test
>>> - Newly added jtreg test
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erik
>>>