RFR: Do not abandon RP discovery on conc cancel

[Zhengyu Gu]

Okay.

-Zhengyu

On 06/07/2017 01:51 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think our code that handles concurrent GC cancellation is still under belief
> that cancellation means Full GC. Which makes it correct to abandon reference
> discovery on cancel. But this is not true anymore for degenerate CM/UR -- we
> *want* to continue with RP, and we don't want to lose references. It smells like
> a bug.
>
> The fix is to move abandonment to Full GC:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/fullgc-abandon-rp/webrev.01/
>
> Testing: hotspot_gc_shenandoah
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>