6896647: card marks can be deferred too long

Deferred card marks are now flushed during the gc prologue. Parallel[Scavege,OldGC] and SerialGC no longer defer card marks generated by COMPILER2 as a result of ReduceInitialCardMarks. For these cases, introduced a diagnostic option to defer the card marks, only for the purposes of testing and diagnostics. CMS and G1 continue to defer card marks. Potential performance concern related to single-threaded flushing of deferred card marks in the gc prologue will be addressed in the future.

Reviewed-by: never, johnc
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Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna 2010-01-13 15:26:39 -08:00
parent 0917ad432e
commit 331512606a
14 changed files with 107 additions and 54 deletions

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@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ class CollectedHeap : public CHeapObj {
// Used for filler objects (static, but initialized in ctor).
static size_t _filler_array_max_size;
// Used in support of ReduceInitialCardMarks; only consulted if COMPILER2 is being used
bool _defer_initial_card_mark;
protected:
MemRegion _reserved;
BarrierSet* _barrier_set;
@ -70,13 +73,16 @@ class CollectedHeap : public CHeapObj {
// Constructor
CollectedHeap();
// Do common initializations that must follow instance construction,
// for example, those needing virtual calls.
// This code could perhaps be moved into initialize() but would
// be slightly more awkward because we want the latter to be a
// pure virtual.
void pre_initialize();
// Create a new tlab
virtual HeapWord* allocate_new_tlab(size_t size);
// Fix up tlabs to make the heap well-formed again,
// optionally retiring the tlabs.
virtual void fill_all_tlabs(bool retire);
// Accumulate statistics on all tlabs.
virtual void accumulate_statistics_all_tlabs();
@ -431,14 +437,25 @@ class CollectedHeap : public CHeapObj {
// promises to call this function on such a slow-path-allocated
// object before performing initializations that have elided
// store barriers. Returns new_obj, or maybe a safer copy thereof.
virtual oop defer_store_barrier(JavaThread* thread, oop new_obj);
virtual oop new_store_pre_barrier(JavaThread* thread, oop new_obj);
// Answers whether an initializing store to a new object currently
// allocated at the given address doesn't need a (deferred) store
// allocated at the given address doesn't need a store
// barrier. Returns "true" if it doesn't need an initializing
// store barrier; answers "false" if it does.
virtual bool can_elide_initializing_store_barrier(oop new_obj) = 0;
// If a compiler is eliding store barriers for TLAB-allocated objects,
// we will be informed of a slow-path allocation by a call
// to new_store_pre_barrier() above. Such a call precedes the
// initialization of the object itself, and no post-store-barriers will
// be issued. Some heap types require that the barrier strictly follows
// the initializing stores. (This is currently implemented by deferring the
// barrier until the next slow-path allocation or gc-related safepoint.)
// This interface answers whether a particular heap type needs the card
// mark to be thus strictly sequenced after the stores.
virtual bool card_mark_must_follow_store() const = 0;
// If the CollectedHeap was asked to defer a store barrier above,
// this informs it to flush such a deferred store barrier to the
// remembered set.