RFR (round 1), JDK-8214259: Implementation: JEP 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause Garbage Collector

[Roman Kennke]

Alright, we fixed:
- The minor issues that Kim reported in shared-gc
- A lot of fixes in shared-tests according to Leonid's review
- Disabled SA heapdumping similar to ZGC as Per suggested

Some notes:
Leonid:  test/hotspot/jtreg/gc/TestFullGCCount.java was actually
correct. The @requires there means to exclude runs with both CMS and
ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent at the same time, because that would be
(expectedly) failing. It can run CMS, default GC and any other GC just
fine. Adding the same clause for Shenandoah means the same, and filters
the combination (+UseShenandoahGC)+(+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent). I
made the condition a bit clearer by avoiding triple-negation.

See:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/shenandoah-dev/2018-November/008457.html

Per: Disabling the SA part for heapdumping makes 2 tests fail:
- test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/sa/ClhsdbJhisto.java
- test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/sa/TestHeapDumpForLargeArray.java

we filter them for Shenandoah now. I'm wondering: how do you get past
those with ZGC?

See:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/shenandoah-dev/2018-November/008466.html

(Note to Leonid and tests reviewers: I'll add those related filters in
next round).

Vladimir: Roland integrated a bunch of changes to make loop* code look
better. I can tell that we're not done with C2 yet. Can you look over
the code and see what is ok, and especially what is not ok, so that we
can focus our efforts on the relevant parts?

Updated set of webrevs:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/01/

Thanks,
Roman


> Hi,
> 
> This is the first round of changes for including Shenandoah GC into
> mainline.
> I divided the review into parts that roughly correspond to the mailing lists
> that would normally review it, and I divided it into 'shared' code
> changes and
> 'shenandoah' code changes (actually, mostly additions). The intend is to
> eventually
> push them as single 'combined' changeset, once reviewed.
> 
> JEP:
>   https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189
> Bug entry:
> 
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214259
> 
> Webrevs:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/
> 
> For those who want to see the full change, have a look at the
> shenandoah-complete
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shenandoah-complete/>
> directory,
> it contains the full combined webrev. Alternatively, there is the file
> shenandoah-master.patch
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shenandoah-master.patch>,
> which is what I intend to commit (and which should be equivalent to the
> 'shenandoah-complete' webrev).
> 
> Sections to review (at this point) are the following:
>  *) shenandoah-gc
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shenandoah-gc/>
>     - Actual Shenandoah implementation, almost completely residing in
> gc/shenandoah
> 
>  *) shared-gc
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shared-gc/>
>     - This is mostly boilerplate that is common to any GC
>     - referenceProcessor.cpp has a little change to make one assert not
> fail (next to CMS and G1)
>     - taskqueue.hpp has some small adjustments to enable subclassing
> 
>  *) shared-serviceability
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shared-serviceability/>
>     - The usual code to support another GC
> 
>  *) shared-runtime
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shared-runtime/>
>     - A number of friends declarations to allow Shenandoah iterators to
> hook up with,
>       e.g. ClassLoaderData, CodeCache, etc
>     - Warning and disabling JFR LeakProfiler
>     - fieldDescriptor.hpp added is_stable() accessor, for use in
> Shenandoah C2 optimizations
>     - Locks initialization in mutexLocker.cpp as usual
>     - VM operations defines for Shenandoah's VM ops
>     - globalDefinitions.hpp added UINT64_FORMAT_HEX_W for use in
> Shenandoah's logging
>     - The usual macros in macro.hpp
> 
>  *) shared-build
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shared-build/>
>     - Add shenandoah feature, enabled by default, as agreed with
> Vladimir K. beforehand
>     - Some flags for shenandoah-enabled compilation to get
> SUPPORT_BARRIER_ON_PRIMITIVES
>       and SUPPORT_NOT_TO_SPACE_INVARIANT which is required for
> Shenandoah's barriers
>     - --param inline-unit-growth=1000 settings for 2 shenandoah source
> files, which is
>       useful to get the whole marking loop inlined (observed significant
> regression if we
>       don't)
> 
>  *) shared-tests
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shared-tests/>
>     - Test infrastructure to support Shenandoah
>     - Shenandoah test groups
>     - Exclude Shenandoah in various tests that can be run with selected GC
>     - Enable/add configure for Shenandoah for tests that make sense to
> run with it
> 
>  *) shenandoah-tests
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/shenandoah-upstream/00/shenandoah-tests/>
>     - Shenandoah specific tests, most reside in gc/shenandoah subdirectory
>     - A couple of tests configurations have been added, e.g.
> TestGCBasherWithShenandoah.java
> 
> I intentionally left out shared-compiler for now, because we have some
> work left to do
> there, but if you click around you'll find the patch anyway, in case you
> want to take
> a peek at it.
> 
> We have regular builds on:
>   - {Linux} x {x86_64, x86_32, armhf, aarch64, ppc64el, s390x}
>   - {Windows} x {x86_64},
>   - {MacOS X} x {x86_64}
> 
> This also routinely passes:
>   - the new Shenandoah tests
>   - jcstress with/without aggressive Shenandoah verification
>   - specjvm2008 with/without aggressive Shenandoah verification
> 
> 
> I'd like to thank my collegues at Red Hat: Christine Flood, she deserves
> the credit for being the original inventor of Shenandoah, Aleksey
> Shiplëv, Roland Westrelin & Zhengyu Gu for their countless
> contributions, everybody else in Red Hat's OpenJDK team for testing,
> advice and support, my collegues in Oracle's GC, runtime and compiler
> teams for tirelessly helping with and reviewing all the GC interface and
> related changes, and of course the many early adopters for reporting
> bugs and success stories and feature requests: we wouldn't be here
> without any of you!
> 
> Best regards,
> Roman
> 

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