RFR: 8246037: Shenandoah: update man pages to mention -XX:+UseShenandoahGC [v3]

Rui Li duke at openjdk.org
Wed Aug 27 22:58:50 UTC 2025


On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:53:07 GMT, Rui Li <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add documentation of Shenandoah to java man page
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>> Aside from `-XX:+UseShenandoahGC`, I picked flags from [shenandoah_globals.hpp](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoah_globals.hpp) that are at product level but not experimental / diagnostic to avoid overwhelming info. Two additional flags match: `ShenandoahGCMode` and `ShenandoahGCHeuristics`
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> Rui Li has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Update for comments

Updated for other comments except for renaming `satb`: instead, I added additional explanation to say satb is a single generation GC, as well as generational shenandoah is also an satb gc.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26907#issuecomment-3229998019


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