"Dirty" is very confusing around Shenandoah codebase. Let's rename the uses for what they really are. There are no mentions of "dirty" left in gc/shenandoah after this patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/rename-dirty/webrev.01/ Testing: hotspot_gc_shenandoah Thanks, -Aleksey