RFR: 8229451: ZGC: Make some roots invisible to the heap iterator

[Erik Österlund]

Hi Per,

Looks reasonable.

/Erik

On 2019-08-21 15:43, Per Liden wrote:
> Returned to this patch and did some more testing, and realized that 
> the UnhandledOops checker will complain about the raw oop. Adjusted 
> the code to avoid that.
>
> Diff: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8229451/webrev.1-diff
> Full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8229451/webrev.1
>
> Testing: Passed tier1-3
>
> cheers,
> Per
>
> On 8/14/19 10:27 AM, Per Liden wrote:
>> Thanks Erik!
>>
>> I agree that another path in ZRootIterator is unfortunate, but the 
>> alternatives I've managed to come up with tend to be worse.
>>
>> /Per
>>
>> On 8/14/19 9:57 AM, Erik Osterlund wrote:
>>> Hi Per,
>>>
>>> Unfortunate with another special path in the root iterator. But 
>>> alternatives also look bad. Looks good.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> /Erik
>>>
>>>> On 13 Aug 2019, at 10:42, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> JDK-8227226 can temporarily create long[] objects on the heap, 
>>>> which later become oop arrays, when the array initialization has 
>>>> been completed. This is fine from a sampling/reporting point of 
>>>> view (the things done in the MemAllocator::Allocation destructor), 
>>>> since that only happens after the final klass pointer has been 
>>>> installed. However, if a heap iteration (via ZHeapIterator) happens 
>>>> before the final klass pointer has been installed, it will then see 
>>>> the long[]. As far as I can tell, this isn't a big deal, unless 
>>>> that heap iteration is out to JVMTI-tag all long[] instances. In 
>>>> that case, we tag a long[] which will later become an oop array, 
>>>> which seems wrong and potentially problematic. To avoid this, we 
>>>> want to be able to hide these roots from the heap iterator until 
>>>> the final klass pointer has been installed.
>>>>
>>>> The approach here is that these temporary long[] objects are not 
>>>> kept alive in a Handle, but instead treated as a special root in 
>>>> ZThreadLocalData, that can optionally be made invisible to the 
>>>> ZRootsIterator.
>>>>
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229451
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8229451/webrev.0
>>>>
>>>> /Per
>>>