7033292: G1: nightly failure: Non-dirty cards in region that should be dirty

The epochs on the card cache array are initialized to 0 and our initial epoch also starts at 0. So, until the first GC, it might be possible to successfully "claim" a card which was in fact never initialized.

Reviewed-by: johnc, iveresov, ysr
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Antonios Printezis 2011-04-04 13:18:35 -04:00
parent 3e9fe24ddd
commit cec5c20656

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@ -51,7 +51,11 @@ ConcurrentG1Refine::ConcurrentG1Refine() :
_cache_size_index(0), _expand_card_counts(false),
_hot_cache(NULL),
_def_use_cache(false), _use_cache(false),
_n_periods(0),
// We initialize the epochs of the array to 0. By initializing
// _n_periods to 1 and not 0 we automatically invalidate all the
// entries on the array. Otherwise we might accidentally think that
// we claimed a card that was in fact never set (see CR7033292).
_n_periods(1),
_threads(NULL), _n_threads(0)
{