RFR: 8297718: Make NMT free:ing protocol more granular [v2]

Gerard Ziemski gziemski at openjdk.org
Wed Dec 7 16:56:19 UTC 2022


On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 13:59:25 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR avoids the double registration of a failed `os::realloc` in NMT by doing the NMT free protocol steps inline (asserting block integrity, marking of MallocHeader, and registrering results to statistics). This is done by creating a new struct `FreePackage` which includes all of the necessary data for registrering results.
>> 
>> I also did some light refactoring which I think makes the protocol clearer, these are done piece wise as separate commits for the reviewers' convenience.
>
> Johan Sjölen has updated the pull request incrementally with 10 additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Add test that asserts block integrity after revival
>  - Make MallocHeader NONCOPYABLE
>  - Rest of it
>  - Adjust comments
>  - Put back comment, suitably rewritten
>  - Note reversibility of mark_block_as_dead
>  - Rename record_free_block to record_free
>  - Rename record_free to deaccount
>  - Move FreePackage into MallocHeader and rename
>  - Rename as revive, delete copy ctr

BTW I filed [NMT: should realloc() API take flags as arguments?](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298293) to have a chance to consider whether it is a good idea for realloc to be able to change the MEMFLAGS.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11390


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