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This changeset removes the zero-filling thread from G1 and collapses the two free region lists we had before (the "free" and "unclean" lists) into one. The new free list uses the new heap region sets / lists abstractions that we'll ultimately use it to keep track of all regions in the heap. A heap region set was also introduced for the humongous regions. Finally, this change increases the concurrency between the thread that completes freeing regions (after a cleanup pause) and the rest of the system (before we'd have to wait for said thread to complete before allocating a new region). The changest also includes a lot of refactoring and code simplification. Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc
README:
This file should be located at the top of the OpenJDK Mercurial root
repository. This root repository will include a "make" directory,
and a Makefile for building the entire OpenJDK.
A full OpenJDK repository set (forest) should also include the following
6 nested repositories:
"jdk", "hotspot", "langtools", "corba", "jaxws" and "jaxp".
There are also several source downloads for the jax* repositories that
will be needed.
This one root repository can be obtained with something like:
hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7 openjdk7
To make sure you have all the nested repositories, you can run:
cd openjdk7 && sh ./get_source.sh
(This is identical to using the Mercurial Forest Extension command
'hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7 openjdk7').
People unfamiliar with Mercurial should read the first few chapters of
the Mercurial book: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/
See http://openjdk.java.net/ for more information about the OpenJDK.
Simple Build Instructions:
0. Get the necessary system software/packages installed on your system, see
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
1. If you don't have a jdk6 installed, download and install a JDK 6 from
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Set the environment variable ALT_BOOTDIR to the location of JDK 6.
2. Check the sanity of doing a build with your current system:
gnumake sanity
See README-builds.html if you run into problems.
3. Do a complete build of the OpenJDK:
gnumake all
The resulting JDK image should be found in build/*/j2sdk-image
where gnumake is GNU make 3.81 or newer, /usr/bin/make on Linux and
/usr/sfw/bin/gmake or /opt/sfw/bin/gmake on Solaris.