RFR: 8144052: mark_card_deferred does not need to check g1_young_gen

[Erik Helin]

On 2015-11-25, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi Erik,

Hi Thomas,

thanks for reviewing!

> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 16:24 +0100, Erik Helin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this patch removes an unneeded if statement from
> > G1SATBCardTableModRefBS::mark_card_deferred. mark_card_deferred is only
> > called from two places:
> > - UpdateRSetDeferred::do_oop_nv
> > - G1ParScanThreadState::update_rs
> > 
> > In the case of UpdateRSetDeferred::do_oop_nv, the check is always false
> > because we clear the card table in
> > cleanup_after_oops_into_collection_set_do prior to calling
> > remove_self_forwarding_pointers.
> > 
> > In the case of G1ParScanThreadState::update_rs, then we can update the
> > check whether to mark a card or not to check !from->is_young instead of
> > !from->is_survivor.
> > 
> > Therefore, the if statement:
> > if (val == g1_young_gen) {
> >        return false;
> > }
> > can be removed from G1SATBCardTableModRefBS::mark_card_deferred.
> > 
> > Bug:
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144052
> > 
> > Webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8144052/webrev.00/
> > 
> > Testing:
> > - GC test suite with full verification
> 
>  looks good, except that I would like to ask you to add an assertion
> with some good message to G1SATBCardTableModRefBS::mark_card_deferred
> that checks that we are not calling it on a young gen region.

Unfortunately we can't add such an assert because UpdateRSetDeferred
will call mark_card_deferred for cards corresponding to young regions
because we might have gotten an evacuation failure in a young region.

So, UpdateRSetDeferred will call mark_card_deferred for Old and Young
regions (never Survivor). G1ParScanThreadState will call
mark_card_deferred for Old regions only (never Young nor Survivor).

Thanks,
Erik

> Thanks,
>   Thomas
>