Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Co-authored-by: Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Rodriguez <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
GC workers now recognize an intermediate transient state of blocks which are allocated but have not yet completed initialization. blk_start() calls do not attempt to determine the size of a block in the transient state, rather waiting for the block to become initialized so that it is safe to query its size. Audited and ensured the order of initialization of object fields (klass, free bit and size) to respect block state transition protocol. Also included some new assertion checking code enabled in debug mode.
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, johnc, poonam
When using compressed oops, use compressed promoted pointers in b63:b31 of the mark word, so as not to interfere with the CMS "freeness bit" at b7. Updated mark-word layout documentation.
Reviewed-by: minqi, poonam, jmasa, coleenp
Moved PromotionInfo and friends into new files promotionInfo.{h,c}pp from their previous compactibleFreeListSpace.{h,c}pp home.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko
