RFR: JDK-8061259: ParNew promotion failed is serialized on a lock

[Kim Barrett]

On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:00 PM, Jungwoo Ha <jwha at google.com> wrote:
> 
> Apparently, my memory's been swapped out. I meant to use _promotion_failed field.
> 
> diff -r a184ee1d7172 src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parNew/parNewGeneration.cpp
> --- a/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parNew/parNewGeneration.cpp	Thu Jan 08 12:08:22 2015 -0800
> +++ b/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parNew/parNewGeneration.cpp	Thu Jan 15 09:00:05 2015 -0800
> @@ -1194,8 +1194,10 @@
>          return real_forwardee(old);
>      }
>  
> -    new_obj = _next_gen->par_promote(par_scan_state->thread_num(),
> -                                       old, m, sz);
> +    if (!_promotion_failed) {
> +      new_obj = _next_gen->par_promote(par_scan_state->thread_num(),
> +                                        old, m, sz);
> +    }
>  
>      if (new_obj == NULL) {
>        // promotion failed, forward to self

Yes, this looks right.

Bengt mentioned protection with a flag from the original proposed change.  I’m not sure there’s a need for a new flag for this version of the change.