RFR: SA: JDK-8189798: SA cleanup - part 1

[serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com]

Hi Jini,

The fix looks good to me.

Thanks,
Serguei


On 10/24/17 00:31, Jini George wrote:
> Adding hotspot-dev too.
>
> Thanks,
> Jini.
>
> On 10/24/2017 12:05 PM, Jini George wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As a part of SA next, I am working on writing a test case which 
>> compares the fields and the types of the fields of the SA java 
>> classes with the corresponding entries in the vmStructs tables. This, 
>> to some extent, would help in preventing errors in SA due to the 
>> changes in hotspot. As a precursor to this, I am in the process of 
>> making some cleanup related changes (mostly in SA). I plan to have 
>> the changes done in parts. For this webrev, most of the changes are for:
>>
>> 1. Avoiding having some values being redefined in SA. Instead have 
>> those exported through vmStructs, and read it in SA. 
>> (CompactibleFreeListSpace::_min_chunk_size_in_bytes, 
>> CompactibleFreeListSpace::IndexSetSize)
>>
>> Redefinition of hotspot values in SA makes SA error prone, when the 
>> value gets altered in hotspot and the corresponding modification gets 
>> missed out in SA.
>>
>> 2. To remove some unused code (JNIid.java).
>> 3. Add the missing "CMSBitMap::_bmStartWord" in vmStructs.
>> 4. Modify variable names in SA and hotspot to match the counterpart 
>> names, so that the comparison of the fields become easier. Most of 
>> the changes belong to this group.
>>
>> Could I please get reviews done for these precursor changes ?
>>
>> JBS Id: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189798
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jgeorge/8189798/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jini.
>>