RFR (L): 8065972: Remove support for ParNew+SerialOld and DefNew+CMS

[Bengt Rutisson]

Thanks for the reviews Mikael and Stefan!

Pushing this now.

Bengt

On 11/27/14 3:03 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> On 2014-11-27 15:01, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mikael,
>>
>> Thanks for the review!
>>
>> StefanK found some more code to delete. :)
>>
>> Here's an updated webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.02/
>>
>> And here's the diff compared to the last one:
>> cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.01-02.diff/
>
> Looks good. :)
>
> StefanK
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
>>
>>
>> On 2014-11-27 14:56, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>
>>> On 2014-11-26 14:50, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Stefan,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for looking at this!
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-11-26 14:42, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>>>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>>>
>>>>> The changes looks good. There are a couple of follow-up cleanups that
>>>>> can be done as separate changes, but I don't think they are blocking
>>>>> this patch.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed. I filed two cleanup bugs based on Mikael's review.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.00/test/gc/startup_warnings/TestParNewSerialOld.java.frames.html 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the summary should be changed to:
>>>>>
>>>>>   28 * @summary Test that the unsupported ParNew+SerialOld 
>>>>> combination
>>>>> does not start
>>>>
>>>> Good catch.
>>>>
>>>> Here's an updated webrev that fixes the summary and also removes the
>>>> code that Mikael found:
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.01/
>>>
>>> Excellent! 600+ deleted lines!
>>>
>>> Looks good.
>>>
>>> /Mikael
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Only the changes compared to the last webrev:
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.00-01.diff/ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bengt
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> StefanK
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2014-11-26 13:09, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I have a couple of reviews for this change to remove the support
>>>>>> for ParNew+SerialOld and DefNew+CMS?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This work is part of  JEP 214 (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/214).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main change is in the hotspot repo:
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/hotspot-webrev.00/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also removed the ParNew runs from the jprt configuration:
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8065972/root-webrev.00/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> JBS bug:
>>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065972
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some notes about the change:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - UseParNewGC is now a redundant flag. It can only be used with CMS,
>>>>>> so it will always have the same value as UseConcMarkSweepGC. Since
>>>>>> UseParNewGC was not one of the flags that were deprecated in JDK 8,
>>>>>> we decided to leave the flag in for JDK 9 but print a warning 
>>>>>> message
>>>>>> that it is deprecated. We plan on removing UseParNewGC in JDK 10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's how the VM will behave with different values of UseParNewGC
>>>>>> after my change:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ java -XX:+UseParNewGC -version
>>>>>> It is not possible to combine the ParNew young collector with the
>>>>>> Serial old collector.
>>>>>> Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
>>>>>> Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ java -XX:-UseParNewGC -version
>>>>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: The UseParNewGC flag is
>>>>>> deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release
>>>>>> java version "1.9.0-internal-debug"
>>>>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build
>>>>>> 1.9.0-internal-debug-brutisso_2014_11_05_09_40-b00)
>>>>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build
>>>>>> 1.9.0-internal-debug-brutisso_2014_11_05_09_40-b00, mixed mode)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ java -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -version
>>>>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: The UseParNewGC flag is
>>>>>> deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release
>>>>>> java version "1.9.0-internal-debug"
>>>>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build
>>>>>> 1.9.0-internal-debug-brutisso_2014_11_05_09_40-b00)
>>>>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build
>>>>>> 1.9.0-internal-debug-brutisso_2014_11_05_09_40-b00, mixed mode)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ java -XX:-UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -version
>>>>>> It is not possible to combine the DefNew young collector with the 
>>>>>> CMS
>>>>>> collector.
>>>>>> Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
>>>>>> Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - The NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY and "new" calls in initialize_generations()
>>>>>> methods will exit if they fail. No need to check for null after 
>>>>>> those
>>>>>> calls. This simplified the two implementations significantly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - At a few places I've changed from "DefNewGeneration* dng =
>>>>>> (DefNewGeneration*)_young_gen;" to "DefNewGeneration* dng =
>>>>>> _young_gen->as_DefNewGeneration();". The as_DefNewGeneration() 
>>>>>> method
>>>>>> does the asserts that were often placed before the original casting
>>>>>> code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - In concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp I left the casting to
>>>>>> DefNewGeneration even though we could now use the more specific
>>>>>> ParNewGeneration. I prefer to do such an update later (if at all)
>>>>>> since that might come with its own complications regarding virtual
>>>>>> calls etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - The two methods must_be_youngest() and must_be_oldest() were
>>>>>> unused. Removing them was not strictly needed for this change, but
>>>>>> seemed like a nice thing to do anyway and I don't think it clutters
>>>>>> the webrev much.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - UseParNewGC is now always true when UseConcMarkSweepGC is true. 
>>>>>> And
>>>>>> it is always false when UseConcMarkSweepGC is false. If statements
>>>>>> that used to test against both flags have been simplified to only
>>>>>> test against UseConcMarkSweepGC. This means that UseParNewGC is now
>>>>>> only used in arguments.cpp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Similarly JTreg tests that used UseParNewGC have been changed to
>>>>>> use UseConcMarkSweepGC instead. This should make it easy to 
>>>>>> remove in
>>>>>> JDK 10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - The change to make/jprt.properties only affects the internal
>>>>>> testing system we have. It will no longer test the ParNew+SerialOld
>>>>>> combination (which is no longer supported). Note that DefNew+CMS was
>>>>>> not tested at all by JPRT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bengt
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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