RFR: 8144040: UpdateRSetDeferred in G1EvacFailure will never visit survivor regions

[Erik Helin]

On 2015-11-25, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 15:39 +0100, Erik Helin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this patch removes an unneeded check from UpdateRSetDeferred which is used in
> > the case of an evacuation failure. When we start a GC with G1, we
> > change the type of all survivor regions to eden (see the call to
> > hr->set_eden_pre_gc() in G1CollectorPolicy::finalize_young_cset_part).
> > Therefore, if we ever get an evac failure in a region, then that region
> > must be either young or old. Therefore, we don't need to check for
> > survivor regions in UpdateRSetDeferred.
> > 
> > Bug:
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144040
> > 
> > Webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8144040/webrev.00/
> > 
> > Testing:
> > - GC test suite with full verification
> 
>   looks good.

Thanks!
Erik

> Thomas
> 
>