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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8305898

Alternative self-forwarding mechanism

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P4
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    • gc
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      Currently, the Serial, Parallel and G1 GCs store a pointer to self into object headers, when compaction fails, to indicate that the object has been looked at, but failed compaction into to-space. This is problematic for compact object headers (JDK-8294992) because it would (temporarily) over-write the crucial class information, which we need for heap parsing. I would like to propose an alternative: use the bit #3 (previously biased-locking bit) to indicate that an object is 'self-forwarded'. That preserves the crucial class information in the upper bits of the header until the full header gets restored.

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              rkennke Roman Kennke
              rkennke Roman Kennke
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