RFR: 8114823: G1 doesn't honor request to disable class unloading

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi Stefan,

On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 10:49 +0200, Stefan Johansson wrote:
> Thanks for looking at this Thomas,
> 
> On 2016-09-09 13:43, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 13:10 +0200, Stefan Johansson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > [...]
> >    looks good except for one issue: The implementations for
> > process_all_roots() and process_all_roots_no_string_table() are
> > basically copy&paste with the only difference that the former has
> > this call to process the string table roots.
> > 
> > While reviewing this, this made it kind of hard to see the
> > difference, and I am kind of wary that this code duplication may
> > cause issues at some point.
> > 
> > I would strongly prefer if one method either called the other, or
> > the change added a _private_ third method with a flag to determine
> > whether string processing should be done in there.
> > 
> > If others object, I would be good with that too, but still see this
> > as unnecessary maintenance issue.
> I see your point, and I agree that from a maintenance point of view
> it is better. Here's an example of how it would look:
> Full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8114823/hotspot.01/
> Inc: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8114823/hotspot.00-01/
> 

I like this better.

> Let's see what other reviewers think.

Okay.

Thanks,
  Thomas