RFR (S): 7080389: G1: refactor marking code in evacuation pause copy closures

[Tony Printezis]

You think "do_mark_forwardee" is generic?!?!?! It's very descriptive on 
what it does.

Tony

On 08/19/2011 10:35 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Tony,
>
> On 08/19/2011 04:19 PM, Tony Printezis wrote:
>> Stefan,
>>
>> OK, good point. Maybe John can change the comment to something like 
>> "Need to mark the copied object if we're root scanning closure during 
>> initial mark, ....". Would this address your concern?
>
> I just don't see the reason for giving the parameter such a "generic" 
> name and then having comments about initial marking root scan in the 
> code whenever the parameter is used.
>
> StefanK
>
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 08/19/2011 10:01 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>>> But that's not what the comment says:
>>>
>>> 4339   // Need to mark the copied object if we're an initial
>>> 4340   // mark closure, or the object is already marked and
>>> 4341   // we need to preserve the mark.
>>> 4342   bool should_mark = do_mark_forwardee ||
>>> 4343       (_g1->mark_in_progress()&&  !_g1->is_obj_ill(obj));
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> 4357     // Object is not in collection set - if we're an initial mark
>>> 4358     // closure then mark the object.
>>> 4359     if (do_mark_forwardee) {
>>>
>>> StefanK
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>>
>