RFR: 8357307: VM GC operations should have a public gc_succeeded()

[Ivan Walulya]

On Tue, 27 May 2025 15:43:10 GMT, Thomas Schatzl <tschatzl at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>    please review this cleanup that changes `VM_GC_Operation` to use `gc_succeeded` instead of `prologue_succeeded()`to indicate that a GC has been executed (once a GC is started, it will always finish, so the only reason that a VM op does not get executed is that we decide in the prologue that there has already been a GC).
> 
> After recent changes the change is/was mostly a renaming of the `prologue_succeeded`method - there is only one case for G1 where additional checks can cause no execution of the GC (e.g. because we started a low-priority concurrent mark and we are already currently marking. No point for doing a GC in that case).
> 
> Testing: tier1-4, gha
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas

Marked as reviewed by iwalulya (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25469#pullrequestreview-2874544891