<p dir="ltr">Hi John,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for the response. Yeah, I figured it's the same thing since it's not null iff # of workers > 0. However, if this relationship is ever broken or perhaps the gang can be set to null at some point even if workers > 0, then this code will segv again. Hence I thought a null guard is a bit better, but it was just a side comment - code looks fine as is.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my phone</p>
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Hi Vitaly,<br>
<br>
Thanks for looking over the changes. AFAICT checking if
_parallel_workers is not null is equivalent to checking that the
number of parallel marking threads is > 0. I went with the latter
check as other references to the parallel workers work gang are
guarded by it. I'm not sure why the code was originally written that
way but my guess is that, when originally written, the marking
threads (like the concurrent refinement threads currently) were not
in a work gang.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
JohnC<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi John,</p>
<p dir="ltr">What's the advantage of checking parallel marking
thread count > 0 rather than checking if parallel workers is
not NULL? Is it clearer that way? I'm thinking checking for NULL
here (perhaps with a comment on when NULL can happen) may be a
bit more robust in case it can be null for some other reason,
even if parallel marking thread count is > 0.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Looks good though.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my phone</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2013 5:14 PM, "John
Cuthbertson" <<a href="mailto:john.cuthbertson@oracle.com" target="_blank">john.cuthbertson@oracle.com</a>>
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Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
Can I please have a couple of volunteers look over the fix for
this CR - the webrev can be found at: <a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejohnc/8005875/webrev.0/" target="_blank">http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~johnc/8005875/webrev.0/</a><br>
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Summary:<br>
One of the modules in the Kitchensink test generates a
VM_PrintThreads vm operation. The JVM crashes when it tries to
print out G1's concurrent marking worker threads when
ParallelGCThreads=0 because the work gang has not been
created. The fix is to add the same check that's used
elsewhere in G1's concurrent marking.<br>
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Testing:<br>
Kitchensink with ParallelGCThreads=0<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
JohnC<br>
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