RFR: 8305898: Alternative self-forwarding mechanism [v18]

Roman Kennke rkennke at openjdk.org
Fri Jun 16 15:01:45 UTC 2023


> Currently, the Serial, Parallel and G1 GCs store a pointer to self into object headers, when compaction fails, to indicate that the object has been looked at, but failed compaction into to-space. This is problematic for compact object headers ([JDK-8294992](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294992)) because it would (temporarily) over-write the crucial class information, which we need for heap parsing. I would like to propose an alternative: use the bit #3 (previously biased-locking bit) to indicate that an object is 'self-forwarded'. That preserves the crucial class information in the upper bits of the header until the full header gets restored.

Roman Kennke has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 30 commits:

 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - Update comment about mark-word layout
 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - Fix tests on 32bit builds
 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - wqRevert "Rename self-forwarded -> forward-failed"
   
   This reverts commit 4d9713ca239da8e294c63887426bfb97240d3130.
 - Merge branch 'JDK-8305896' into JDK-8305898
 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/JDK-8305898' into JDK-8305898
 - ... and 20 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/524f9c52...3838ac05

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13779/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13779&range=17
  Stats: 101 lines in 8 files changed: 85 ins; 2 del; 14 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13779.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13779/head:pull/13779

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13779


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