RFR: 8210065: ZGC: Remove mode for treating weaks as strong
Per Liden
per.liden at oracle.com
Wed Aug 29 06:37:46 UTC 2018
On 08/28/2018 02:39 PM, Erik Österlund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In ZGC, the root processor has a mode for supporting treating weaks as
> strong. This makes no sense to use for a user as it only introduces
> memory leaks. We have supported it anyway because it was a neat
> debugging tool while implementing concurrent reference processing. But
> now it seems like it is time for this option to retire, as it makes the
> root scanning code unnecessarily complicated and bug prone.
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8210065/webrev.00/
Looks good!
/Per
>
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210065
>
> Thanks,
> /Erik
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