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

[Stefan Karlsson]

On 08/19/2011 04:39 PM, Tony Printezis wrote:
> You think "do_mark_forwardee" is generic?!?!?! It's very descriptive 
> on what it does.

Well, it's more generic than something like 
do_mark_forwardee_during_initial_mark_root_scanning, which at least to 
me, the comments imply. Anyways, you don't have to listen to my 
arguments if you don't want to.

StefanK

>
> 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
>>>>
>>