RFR: 8357053: ZGC: Improved utility for ZPageAge

[Hendrik Schick]

On Thu, 15 May 2025 13:59:29 GMT, Joel Sikström <jsikstro at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This RFE improves utility for converting to/from, iterating over and defining structures that are indexed using the `ZPageAge` type.
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> Converting to/from ZPageAge and its underlying type (uint8_t, often just uint) is currently done via using static_cast. This works fine because sane values are converted in all use cases. However, to make conversion safer (and also more readable), I propose we add a `to_zpageage` and a corresponding `untype` that checks that the conversion is valid. Such conversion methods should be used instead of calling `static_cast<uint/ZPageAge>`.
> 
> We currently define a value called `ZPageAgeMax`, which is defined as `static_cast<uint>(ZPageAge::old)`. The majority of places that use this value actualy use `ZPageAgeMax + 1`, which is equivalent to the number of ages. Instead, I propose we define and use a value that represents the number of possible ages, called `ZPageAgeCount`.
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> Lastly, to make iterating over ages more accessible, I propose we create an intreface of enum iterators of ZPageAge. This will also create a foundation for generating values that require a ZPageAge in the future. Since the end of the enum iterators are exclusive, I've opted to use the following value as end for the iterators:
> 
> constexpr ZPageAge ZPageAgeLastPlusOne = static_cast<ZPageAge>(ZPageAgeCount);
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> I see us using either this or a sentinel/dummy value at the end of the enum class, but I prefer having a value similar to `ZPageAgeLastPlusOne` over a dummy value.
> 
> Testing:
> * Currently running through Oracle's tier 1-4
> * GHA

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25251#issuecomment-2885097918