RFR: 8179387: Factor out CMS specific code from GenCollectedHeap into its own subclass

[Roman Kennke]

Am 06.07.2017 um 15:48 schrieb Mikael Gerdin:
> Hi Roman,
>
> On 2017-07-05 13:58, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> On 2017-07-03 17:05, Roman Kennke wrote:
>>> Am 03.07.2017 um 11:13 schrieb Roman Kennke:
>>>> Am 03.07.2017 um 09:35 schrieb Mikael Gerdin:
>>>>> Hi Roman,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-06-30 18:32, Roman Kennke wrote:
>>>>>> I came across one problem using this approach: We will have 2
>>>>>> instances
>>>>>> of CollectedHeap around, where there's usually only 1, and some code
>>>>>> expects only 1. For example, in CollectedHeap constructor, we
>>>>>> create new
>>>>>> PerfData variables, and we now create them 2x, which leads to an
>>>>>> assert
>>>>>> being thrown. I suspect there is more code like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will attempt to refactor this a little more, maybe it's not
>>>>>> that bad,
>>>>>> but it's probably not worth spending too much time on it.
>>>>> I think refactoring the code to not expect a singleton CollectedHeap
>>>>> instance is a bit too much.
>>>>> Perhaps there is another way to share common code between Serial and
>>>>> CMS but that might require a bit more thought.
>>>> Yeah, definitely. I hit another difficulty: pretty much the same
>>>> issues
>>>> that I'm having with GenCollectedHeap/CMSHeap/CollectedHeap now
>>>> show up
>>>> with Generation and its subclasses..
>>>>
>>>> How about we push the original patch that I've posted, and work from
>>>> there? In fact, I *have* found some little things I would change (some
>>>> more if (UseConcMarkSweepGC) branches in GenCollectedHeap that I have
>>>> overlooked in my first pass...)
>>>
>>> So here's the little change (two more places in genCollectedHeap.hpp
>>> where UseConcMarkSweepGC was used to alter behaviour:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/8179387/webrev.02/
>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erkennke/8179387/webrev.02/>
>>>
>>> Ok to push this?
>
> I just realized that your change doesn't build on Windows since you
> didn't #include "precompiled.hpp" in cmsHeap.cpp. MSVC is really picky
> about that.
> /Mikael

Uhhh.
Ok, here's revision #3 with precompiled added in:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/8179387/webrev.03/
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erkennke/8179387/webrev.03/>

Roman