RFR: 8248133: SerialGC: Unify handling of all OopStorage instances in root processing

Stefan Karlsson stefan.karlsson at oracle.com
Tue Jun 23 10:06:10 UTC 2020



On 2020-06-23 11:53, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Jun 23, 2020, at 4:12 AM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please review this patch to nify handling of all OopStorage instances in root processing for the Serial GC.
>>
>> https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8248133/webrev.01/
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8248133
>>
>> This removes the explicit enumeration of "strong" OopStorages in the Serial GC. This is a step towards allowing the Runtime code to add new OopStorages without having to update all GCs.
>>
>> Tested with tier1-tier3
>>
>> Thanks,
>> StefanK
> 
> This change presumes we like JDK-8234502 :)

Yeah, we do. ;) It would be nice to see some start chipping away at 
that. I'm not sure it has to be an all-in-one change.

> 
> Looks good.

Thanks,
StefanK

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