RFR: 8320907: Shenandoah: Remove ShenandoahSelfFixing flag
Kelvin Nilsen
kdnilsen at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 28 18:31:13 UTC 2023
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:40:24 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:
> We added `ShenandoahSelfFixing` flag during LRB work to exercise LRB mid-paths better during stress tests. Today, we do not need the flag. Actually, if we ever call LRB for the side-effect of updating the location (e.g. somewhere in roots), then disabling this flag would introduce more bugs. Therefore, we need to remove the flag and make self-fixing unconditional.
>
> Additional testing:
> - [x] MacOS AArch64 server fastdebug, `hotspot_gc_shenandoah`
Marked as reviewed by kdnilsen (no project role).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16855#pullrequestreview-1753617205
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