RFR(S) 8148944: CollectorPolicy methods for memory allocations are specific to GenCollectorPolicy

[Mikael Gerdin]

Hi Kim,

On 2016-02-03 21:20, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Please review this small cleanup to reduce the public API of CollectorPolicy.
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>> CollectorPolicy::mem_allocate_work and satisfy_failed_allocation are pure virtuals on CollectorPolicy but are only used by GenCollectorPolicy/GenCollectedHeap. The other collectors stub the methods out with fatal errors if they are called.
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>> My fix is to move the methods to GenCollectorPolicy and let GenCollectedHeap access them through its typed pointer to the Gen policy.
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>> I've also taken the opportunity to remove the "virtual" keyword from satsfy_failed_metadata_allocation(), it has never been overridden by any CollectorPolicy subclass. If that is desirable then it can easily be reinstated.
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>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148944
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8148944/webrev.0/
>> Testing: Just a local build and testing with GCBasher.
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>> Thanks
>> /Mikael
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> Looks good.
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> A couple minor comments; don't need a new webrev for these.
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Will do.

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> Update indentation of parameters for satisfy_failed_metadata_allocation.
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I hadn't fixed the parameter alignment here, good catch!

Thanks for the review.

/Mikael

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