RFR 8004128: NPG: remove stackwalking in Threads::gc_prologue and gc_epilogue code

[Coleen Phillimore]

Thank you, Vladimir!
Coleen

On 7/17/14, 2:27 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> This looks good. I looked through it several times and found nothing 
> suspicious.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 7/17/14 10:59 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> I created another webrev with the better version of webrev (with source
>> file navigation) which makes this much easier to read.
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>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8004128_2/
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>> Thanks!
>> Coleen
>>
>>
>> On 7/14/14, 8:05 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>> Summary: remove bcx and mdx handling. We no longer have to convert
>>> bytecode pointers or method data pointers to indices for GC since
>>> Metadata aren't moved.
>>>
>>> Tested with nsk.quick.testlist, jck tests, JPRT.
>>>
>>> Most of this is renaming bcx to bcp and mdx to mdp.  The content
>>> changes are in frame.cpp.  StefanK implemented 90% of these changes.
>>>
>>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8004128/
>>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8004128
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Coleen
>>