Integrated: 8283555: G1: Concurrent mark accesses uninitialized BOT of closed archive regions

[Thomas Schatzl]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:29:39 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>   please review this change that fixes crashes occurring in the Loom repo because of missing initialization in the BOT of closed archive regions. This is a bug here too, just typically not occurring.
> 
> So during marking through the closed archive regions (for statistics mainly) it can happen that there are objects in these closed archive regions that are split into chunks. To get the start of the object that contains this chunk, we use the BOT.
> 
> Since it is not initialized for the closed archive regions G1 crashes as that call returns garbage.
> 
> The fix is to not only initialize open archive regions, but also closed archive regions.
> 
> The problem started with [JDK-8264908](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8264908) which means that there will be a JDK 18 backport.
> 
> Testing: failing test with Loom, GHA
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 19f01ab7
Author:    Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/19f01ab70133d244422684f63f118249178bce4a
Stats:     10 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 5 del; 0 mod

8283555: G1: Concurrent mark accesses uninitialized BOT of closed archive regions

Reviewed-by: ayang, iwalulya

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7923