Entry function of GC Collection

[Abhinav Jangda]

Yes, I was looking for these methods. Thanks a lot for all of you.

I did some more digging and found out that The type of generation in Serial GC is TenuredGeneration. Now, TenuredGeneration::collect () calls OneContigSpaceCardGeneration::collect (). But in OneContigSpaceCardGeneration::collect () I couldn't see any code related to collect or relevant to collect. Please tell me if collection is happening somewhere else or here? If somewhere else then where?
 
I can see that TenuredGeneration::collect () is called from _gens[i]->collect(full, do_clear_all_soft_refs, size, is_tlab); in GenCollectedHeap::do_collection () function in file genCollectedHeap.cpp.

Thank You,

Abhinav
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:28:46 -0700
From: jon.masamitsu at oracle.com
To: hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: Entry function of GC Collection


  
    
  
  
    You're perhaps looking for the collect() methods.

    

    For example,

    

    void TenuredGeneration::collect()

    

    and

    

    void DefNewGeneration::collect()

    

    Jon

    

    On 07/25/2015 01:30 PM, Abhinav Jangda
      wrote:

    
    
      
      Hello all,

        

        I have been working on a project which requires me to change GC
        Algorithm in Java Hotspot VM. I have been trying to understand
        the source code of GC in Hotspot VM. I know a couple of details
        about GC in Hotspot now. But I am not able to find the start
        function of GC Collection. I think VM_GenCollectFull::doit
        and VM_GenCollectForAllocation::doit() are the two
        functions called for GC. But if I add std::cout
        statements at the start of these functions and start the Dacapo
        Benchmarks I couldn't see any result produced by std::cout
        statements. I want to work with SerialGC.

        Here is the command I used to run Hotspot:

        

        ./java -XX:+UseSerialGC -jar dacapo.jar jython

        

        OpenJDK version is 8 and I am compiling building openjdk using
        following command

        

        make CONF=linux-x86_64-normal-server-release

        

        It will be great if anyone of you could help me.

        

        Thank You,

        Abhinav

      
    
    
 		 	   		  
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