RFR: 8202641: Replace OOP_SINCE_SAVE_MARKS with templates

[Stefan Karlsson]

On 2018-05-07 11:26, Stefan Johansson wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On 2018-05-04 12:06, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please review this patch to replace the OOPS_SINCE_SAVE_MARKS macros
>> with templates.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8202641/webrev.01/
> Yet another great cleanup, so nice to see those macros go away :)
> 
> The change looks good, ship it.

Thanks for reviewing!

StefanK

> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202641
>>
>> The OOP_SINCE_SAVE_MARKS related macros are used to devirtualize
>> OopClosure calls. The way these works require us to stamp out all
>> relevant overloads of OopClosures in the Generation and GenCollectedHeap
>> classes. This makes it hard to separate Serial from CMS. One example is
>> defNewGeneration.hpp, which includes cms/parOopClosure.hpp, just to make
>> sure that CMS specific overloads are generated for DefNewGeneration,
>> even those that are never used.
>>
>> By replacing these macros with templates we can get rid of this false
>> dependency between DefNewGeneration and CMS.
>>
>> This patch builds upon the patch in:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2018-May/021966.html 
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> StefanK