RFR: 8302462: [REDO] 8297487: G1 Remark: no need to keep alive oop constants of nmethods on stack

Tue Feb 14 17:15:45 UTC 2023

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:37:29 GMT, Richard Reingruber <rrich at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a REDO of JDK-8297487 after the issues that cause the BACKOUT were resolved with [JDK-8300915](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8300915)
> 
> Testing:
> * The reproducer `test/langtools:tier1` was executed without crash for 12h.
> * Multiple iterations of jtreg tests tiers 1-4  on standard platforms and also on ppc64le.

src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/barrierSet.cpp line 64:

> 62:     // the constant pool of nmethods as part of the SATB snapshot, and to deal with
> 63:     // compiled frames contained in continuation stack chunks allocated after
> 64:     // concurent mark start.

I've adapted the comment after https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2023-January/041194.html

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12561