Changes in JDK-8038423 always initialize (zero out) virtual memory used for auxiliary data structures. This causes a footprint regression for G1 in startup benchmarks. This is because they do not touch that memory at all, so the operating system does not actually commit these pages. The fix is to, if the initialization value of the data structures matches the default value of just committed memory (=0), do not do anything.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso
Allow G1 to decommit memory of arbitrary regions within the heap and their associated auxiliary data structures card table, BOT, hot card cache, and mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, jwilhelm
Add a StoreLoad barrier in the G1 post-barrier to fix a race with concurrent refinement. Also-reviewed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tschatzl, brutisso, roland, kvn
A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes
Bulk zeroing reduction didn't work with G1, because arraycopy would call pre-barriers on uninitialized oops. The solution is to have version of arraycopy stubs that don't have pre-barriers. Also refactored arraycopy stubs generation on SPARC to be more readable and reduced the number of stubs necessary in some cases.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never
