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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-6948537

CMS: BOT walkers observe out-of-thin-air zeros on sun4v sparc/CMT

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • P2
    • hs19
    • hs17, 6u19
    • hotspot
    • gc
    • 1.4.2
    • b01
    • sparc
    • solaris, solaris_10
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        BOT bulk-updates use memset(). However on Niagara memset() uses BIS
        for speed and this exposes concurrent readers to out-of-thin-air zeroes,
        which are fatal for concurrent BOT walks. Such concurrent reads of
        BOT entries subject to concurrent update are possible with non-contiguous
        spaces such as CMS (but not any other current GC in HotSpot).

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                ysr Y. Ramakrishna
                ysr Y. Ramakrishna
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