RFR (S): 8204169: Humongous continues region remembered set states do not match the one from the corresponding humongous start region
Kim Barrett
kim.barrett at oracle.com
Wed Jun 13 01:19:16 UTC 2018
> On Jun 4, 2018, at 6:27 AM, Thomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> can I have reviews for this small change that fixes up remembered set
> states of humongous continues regions? In particular they are not
> necessarily consistent with the humongous starts region at the moment.
>
> This makes for some surprises when reading the logs. Otherwise there is
> no impact: all decisions on how to treat the humongous object are made
> on the humongous start region anyway.
>
> As for testing, I added code to the heap verification to check this
> consistency requirement. This makes for a 100% failure rate in
> gc/g1/TestEagerReclaimHumongousRegionsClearMarkBits if not fixed.
>
> CR:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8204169
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8204169/webrev/
> Testing:
> hs-tier1-3
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
Looks good.
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