RFR: 8337511: Implement JEP 404: Generational Shenandoah (Experimental) [v8]

[William Kemper]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:16:16 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> William Kemper has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 524 commits:
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>>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'shenandoah/master' into great-genshen-pr-redux
>>  - 8344670: GenShen: Use concurrent worker session for concurrent mark phase
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>>    Reviewed-by: kdnilsen
>>  - 8344640: GenShen: Reuse existing card mark barrier function when dropping references
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>>    Reviewed-by: shade, ysr
>>  - 8344592: GenShen: Remove unnecessary comments and changes
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: kdnilsen
>>  - 8344263: GenShen: Reduce extraneous log messages at INFO level
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: ysr, shade
>>  - 8344638: GenShen: Verifier should not touch claim token
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: shade
>>  - Merge
>>  - 8344320: GenShen: Possible null pointer usage in shGenerationalHeap
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: wkemper, ysr
>>  - 8344321: GenShen: Fix various sonar scan warnings
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: kdnilsen, shade
>>  - 8344264: GenShen: Improve comments and method names
>>    
>>    Reviewed-by: shade
>>  - ... and 514 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/95a00f8a...7ab16403
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> src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahHeap.hpp line 514:
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>> 512: 
>> 513: public:
>> 514:   ShenandoahController*   control_thread() { return _control_thread; }
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> This method and field is probably `controller` then, right?

Left the accessor and field with the same name to reduce churn. Clients of this method don't really need to change because in most (all?) cases, the public API of `ShenandoahControlThread` is declared in `ShenandoahController`.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21273#discussion_r1852636871