custom compacting GC implementation

[Pressenna Sockalingasamy]

  Hi,

I'm trying to implement a (so far) simple heap, which stops the world and compacts spaces.
It is all working, but as soon as I compact spaces and get new oop addresses to be used, the JVM SIGSEGVs.
For some reasons, the backtrace (via DDD) shows me that the VM is executing code in the heap address space.
Is there something special I have to do / consider when adjusting pointers during a safepoint?
Currently I am just using the same approach as the SharedHeap::process_strong_roots(...).
My code base is the b20 source drop.

Current code is as follows:

	rmsAdjustClosure rac(_adjustmentMap);
	Universe::oops_do(&rac);
	ReferenceProcessor::oops_do(&rac);
	JNIHandles::oops_do(&rac);
	Threads::oops_do(&rac, NULL);
	ObjectSynchronizer::oops_do(&rac);
	FlatProfiler::oops_do(&rac);
	Management::oops_do(&rac);
	JvmtiExport::oops_do(&rac);
	SystemDictionary::oops_do(&rac);
	vmSymbols::oops_do(&rac);
	JNIHandles::oops_do(&rac);
	CodeCache::oops_do(&rac);
	SymbolTable::oops_do(&rac);
	StringTable::oops_do(&rac);
	// adjust pointers in the permanent space / generation
	_heap->permanent_oop_iterate(&rac);


Regards,
Pressenna Sockalingasamy


PS: sorry for the double post... forgot the sample code