RFR: Generational support for weak roots and references

[Roman Kennke]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:53:56 GMT, William Kemper <wkemper at openjdk.org> wrote:

> ### Summary
> The LRB for non-strong references is modified to permit resurrection of objects outside the generation being collected. In other words, resurrection is only blocked for unmarked objects in the generation being collected.
> 
> Each `ShenandoahGeneration` has its own reference processor instance. In some cases, a reference from the old generation may end up on the young generation discovered list if the reference points to a young referent (this would happen if the old reference is in the remembered set). However, young references that point to referents in the old generation are _not_ discovered. This has the effect of strongly marking the old generation referent. This also avoids the case of having young references on the old generation discovered list being evacuated/relocated while they wait for old generation reference processing (although we believe this case would be handled correctly by the existing update references code).

Before I review this, can you give me more details of your thinking? In particular:
- why do we need one reference processor per generation? Why is a single global reference processor not enough?
- why would we want to allow resurrection of objects in the not-collected generation?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/shenandoah/pull/53