CRR: 7033292: G1: nightly failure: Non-dirty cards in region that should be dirty (XXS)

[Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna]

looks good.

- ramki

On 4/4/2011 8:23 AM, Tony Printezis wrote:
> Tiny patch (only a single digit changed and a short comment added):
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tonyp/7033292/webrev.0/
>
> The issue is that in the G1 card cache the epoch the cache entries are initialized to (e.g., 0) is
> the same as what the current epoch is also initialized to. This makes the initialized, but not yet
> populated, cache entries to look valid until the first GC. When one of those entries is replaced the
> evicted card is incorrectly materialized to be the one that corresponds to the bottom of the heap.
> The fix is to initialize the current epoch to 1 to automatically invalidate all the cache entries
> that have not been populate yet.
>
> Many thanks to John Cuthbertson for his help on this.
>
> Tony