A couple of questions for G1 developers

[Andrew Haley]

I'm debugging a crash that may have nothing to do with G1. However:

1. What is the structure of the G1BlockOffsetTable? It looks like an
   offset (in HeapWords?) for each chunk, from the start of the chunk
   to the start of the object which begins that chunk. So, if an
   object straddles a chunk binary, the offset is subtracted from the
   start of the chunk to give an oop.

2. Why does G1BlockOffsetTablePart::forward_to_block_containing_addr
   need an acquiring load on
	
  if (oop(q)->klass_or_null_acquire() == NULL) {
    return q;

I guess it must be because of a race, but what is it racing with?

Thanks.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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