[8u76] Request for approval for CR 8147087 - Race when reusing PerRegionTable bitmaps may result in dropped remembered set entries

[Seán Coffey]

Since you already have plans to address this in JDK 9, pushing to 
jdk8u-dev now won't be a problem. Approved. This should automatically 
make 8u76 - Rob will be taking final pre-RDP2 snapshot for master sync 
in coming days.

Regards,
Sean.

On 21/01/2016 12:47, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I would like to ask for approval to push the change for JDK-8147087
> to 8u.
>
> It fixes a P1 crash in the G1 collector that occurs in certain
> situations due to a race in how remembered set entries are added to the
> remembered sets.
>
> CR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147087
>
> Review thread link:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2016-January/0162
> 63.html (JDK8)
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2016-January/0162
> 44.html (JDK9)
>
> Unfortunately there has been no chance for me to push this to jdk9/hs
> -rt first in time because there is an internal stabilization lock-down
> of the repo in progress at the moment.
>
> For this reason I am asking to be allowed to push it to jdk8u first to
> meet the rampdown 2 deadline.
>
> This change has been tested thoroughly internally using the reproducing
> stress test on all platforms without that issue occurring.
>
> In any case, since the essence of the change is reordering assignments
> to variables in one place when adding remembered sets, the impact to
> any unrelated components is very unlikely.
>
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
>
>