RFR: JDK-8035496: G1 ARM: missing remset entry noticed by VerifyAfterGC for vm/gc/concurrent/lp50yp10rp70mr30st0
Thomas Schatzl
thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Wed May 13 19:16:40 UTC 2015
Hi Bengt,
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 20:41 +0200, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
> Hi Jon and Thomas,
>
> On 13/05/15 19:48, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 09:42 -0700, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> >> Bengt,
> >>
> >> Change looks good.
>
> Thanks for the review, Jon!
>
> >>
> >> Thomas,
> >>
> >> Is the comment added as part of this change understandable to
> >> you? I don't know this code so definitely lack the greater
> >> understanding of what's going on. But if you think the
> >> comment is clear (and since you know the context), it's
> >> fine.
> > it's fine, except maybe for the comment about non-TSO architectures.
> > It just means that the last write publishes the data structure to the
> > public, so everything written before that should be guaranteed to be
> > written first.
> >
> > As for the comment about non-TSO architectures, TSO architectures also
> > need that barrier because the compiler might otherwise reorder the
> > writes which then definitely gets visible in the wrong order.
> >
> > Maybe Bengt can fix that (just remove the "On non-TSO systems," part)
> > before pushing?
>
> Sounds good. I'll remove that sentence before I push.
>
It is sufficient to remove just the three words imo :)
Thanks,
Thomas
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