RFR: 8276696: ParallelObjectIterator freed at the wrong time in VM_HeapDumper

[Erik Österlund]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:42:10 GMT, Per Liden <pliden at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The VM_HeapDumper code uses a C heap allocated ParallelObjectIterator. It is constructed right before running a parallel operation with a work gang, but freed in the destructor of the VM_HeapDumper. This means it is created on one thread and deleted on another thread. This becomes a bit problematic when a parallel object iterator implementation uses a ThreadsListHandle (which is indeed the case for ZGC). This patch changes ParallelObjectIterator to be a StackObj, carrying a ParallelObjectIteratorImpl object, which is never exposed publicly. This ensures that construction and destruction of the internal object iterator is scoped like RAII objects, hence complying with how ThreadsListHandle is supposed to be used.
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> Looks good.

Thanks for the reviews, @pliden and @stefank!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6501