RFR: JDK-8212186: JVMTI lacks a few GC barriers/hooks

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 07:24:13 UTC 2018


On 10/18/2018 09:13 AM, Per Liden wrote:
>> Tracing. Scanning would require to carry around complete marking info
>> (to be able to avoid holes of dead objects with recycled Klass*), which
>> we don't.
> 
> So that makes me wonder why you needed JDK-8211955 (GC abstraction for LAB reserve) and why you
> insert filler objects at all? Am I missing something?

I think Roman meant that Shenandoah does tracing for _external_ heap walk, e.g. for heap dumps. The
internal heap walks, e.g. for evac/update-refs, are still pretty much scanning the self-parsable
heap, which requires us doing fillers right.

-Aleksey



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