Request for review (vs) - 6843292

[Tony Printezis]

Thanks John, I hadn't realized that... I thought debug and assert were 
separate... OK, I'll keep my mouth shut now. :-)

Tony

John Coomes wrote:
> Tony Printezis (Antonios.Printezis at Sun.COM) wrote:
>   
>> BTW, the conversation I had with Jon was whether bool guarded = ... 
>> should really be debug_only() or the equivalent of assert_only() (which 
>> we can only do with #ifdef ASSERT right now), given that guarded is only 
>> used in an assert. Is there a policy to use debug_only() for anything 
>> that's only used in asserts?
>>     
>
> Despite the name, DEBUG_ONLY(), and the deprecated debug_only(), are
> controlled by #ifdef ASSERT; see macros.hpp.  So they're intended for
> stuff that's only used in asserts.
>
> -John
>
>   
>> John Coomes wrote:
>>     
>>> Jon Masamitsu (Jon.Masamitsu at Sun.COM) wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 6843292: "Expect to be beyond new region unless impacting another 
>>>> region" assertion too strong"
>>>>
>>>> Relax the assertion for the case where the new region extends into the 
>>>> guard page.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/6843292
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Looks fine.  You could change this:
>>>
>>>  259     HeapWord* new_end_for_commit = new_end_aligned;
>>>  260 
>>>  261     debug_only(bool guarded = false;)
>>>  262     if (new_end_for_commit > _guard_region.start()) {
>>>  263       new_end_for_commit = _guard_region.start();
>>>  264       debug_only(guarded = true;)
>>>  265     }
>>>
>>> to this:
>>>
>>>     DEBUG_ONLY(const bool guarded = new_end_aligned > _guard_region.start());
>>>     HeapWord* new_end_for_commit = MIN2(new_end_aligned, _guard_region.start());
>>>
>>> which is easier to read (IMHO, of course).
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
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