CRR: G1: assert((_g1->evacuation_failed()) || (!_g1->obj_in_cs(obj))) failed (XS)

John Coomes John.Coomes at oracle.com
Wed May 4 19:52:27 UTC 2011


Tony Printezis (tony.printezis at oracle.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like one more review for this small fix:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tonyp/7040450/webrev.0/
> 
> The problem was that the assert at the end of mark_forwardee() was too 
> strong and if another thread self-forwarded the object we might have hit 
> the assert before the other thread got a chance to set the evacuation 
> failure flag. I removed the assert (as it's not straightforward to make 
> it work in the presence of this race) and I added two new asserts in the 
> evacuation handling code to make sure that the post-conditions are as 
> expected before we get to mark_forwardee().

Looks good to me.

-John




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