RFR (S): 8075288: Remove dictionary NULL check on common path of BlockFreeList methods

[Jungwoo Ha]

Well, I just followed what Kim suggested before.
I did that before for JDK-8075288, and no one responded yet on runtime
thread.
There are too many different voices from Oracle, which confuses me.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com
> wrote:

>  Hi Jungwoo,
>
>
> On 2015-04-30 15:33, Jungwoo Ha wrote:
>
>
>>  I agree. This is a nice cleanup, irrespective of any potential
>> performance gains.
>>
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8079091/webrev.00/src/share/vm/memory/metaspace.cpp.udiff.html
>>
>> -BlockFreelist::BlockFreelist() : _dictionary(NULL) {}
>> +BlockFreelist::BlockFreelist()
>> +    : _dictionary(new BlockTreeDictionary()) {
>> +  assert(_dictionary != NULL, "Failed to allocate BlockTreeDictionary");
>> +}
>>
>> No need to NULL check CHeapObj allocations, since the JVM will exit if it
>> failed to get memory. See AllocateHeap:
>>   if (p == NULL && alloc_failmode == AllocFailStrategy::EXIT_OOM) {
>>     vm_exit_out_of_memory(size, OOM_MALLOC_ERROR, "AllocateHeap");
>>   }
>>
>>
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8079091/webrev.02/
>
>  That part is taken care of on webrev.02.
> The conversation is also happening at runtime mailing list as Kim
> suggested to pass it to runtime.
>
>
> Please don't split up a review request that way in the future. It would
> have been enough to CC the hotspot-runtime-dev list.
>
> I'll leave the rest of my comments on that list.
>
> Thanks,
> StefanK
>
>   I think the general agreement is on using webrev.02.
>
>
>
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