Review request (M): 7085906: Replace the permgen allocated sentinelRef with a self-looped end

[Ramki Ramakrishna]

Thanks; reviewed!

-- ramki

On 9/5/2011 10:54 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Ramki,
>
> On 09/05/2011 07:38 PM, Ramki Ramakrishna wrote:
>> Stefan, this looks good to me. (PS: I am assuming this is 
>> substantively the same code I reviewed
>> last week? Let me know if there are any subsequent changes I need to 
>> be specially
>> aware of, or to pull into my testing.)
>
> This is essentially the same code (I removed the unused function 
> declaration that was present in last weeks code).
>
> thanks,
> StefanK
>
>>
>> thanks!
>> -- ramki
>>
>> On 9/5/2011 4:59 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/7085906/webrev/
>>>
>>> 7085906: Replace the permgen allocated sentinelRef with a 
>>> self-looped end
>>>
>>> The reference processor uses the sentinelRef to mark the end of the 
>>> lists of discovered References. All the collectors rely on the 
>>> sentinelRef being allocated in the permgen, hence not moving. So, 
>>> when permgen is removed this will not work.
>>>
>>> We could probably make changes to the collectors to update all 
>>> pointers to the sentinelRef, but the proposed solution is to remove 
>>> the sentinelRef, and instead let the last Reference in a discovered 
>>> chain point back to itself. Just like we do with the next field.
>>>
>>> StefanK
>