Integrated: 8294238: ZGC: Move CLD claimed mark clearing

Stefan Karlsson stefank at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 12 12:09:52 UTC 2022


On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 11:20:40 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When we claim CLDs during object iteration, we must make sure to have a cleared set of claim bits. Today we ensure this by clearing the bits before object iteration starts. Most GCs perform this clearing during a stop-the-world pause, before the actual GC marking starts.
> 
> ZGC, however, performs the clearing concurrently. This requires us to be very careful and never start following object references before the clearing has completed.
> 
> In the Generational ZGC repository, we changed it so that the code that performs the object iteration cleans up and clears these bits after itself. This has the effect that when marking starts, we know that the claimed bits have been cleared.
> 
> I'd like to change the single-generation ZGC to do the same.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 9cf66512
Author:    Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/9cf665120291ece49c02bf490bc95ac57fbb5af4
Stats:     30 lines in 7 files changed: 28 ins; 0 del; 2 mod

8294238: ZGC: Move CLD claimed mark clearing

Reviewed-by: coleenp, tschatzl, eosterlund

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10591


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