For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa
6622418: G1: assert(false,"Non-balanced monitor enter/exit!") fails
The mark-sweep compact (which we use for full gc) wrapper did not save the mark words for biased locked objects. The fix is to trivially call the appropriate methods.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr
