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  2. JDK-8258029

Improve the VM_Operation classes

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • P4
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      While working on JDK-8256641 we found that the code could be brushed up a bit:

      - improve handling of VM_GC_Operations that do not participate in the operation skipping protocol like VM_GC_HeapInspection: either let them inherit from VM_GC_Sync_Operation (and add the check that GC must have been initialized when calling this, see VM_GC_Operation::doit_prologue()), or try to change the order of constructor parameters so that not every one of those needs to add an "this is ignored" comment

      - maybe GCCause can be made an enum class

      - some of those operation skipping VM_GC_Operations seem to duplicate the _full member

      - some of those operation skipping VM_GC_Operations pass a GCCause in the VM_GC_Operation but then do not use the _gc_cause member

      - use initializer lists

      - documentation/indentation style (single space before visibility modifier, column aligned member names, ...) could be brushed up

      - not all VM_GC_Operations are in that file (but maybe ignore this)

      - those not operation-skipping VM_Operations kind of have the same helper method to do the gc e.g.

      bool VM_GC_HeapInspection::collect() {
        if (GCLocker::is_active()) {
          return false;
        }
        Universe::heap()->collect_as_vm_thread(GCCause::_heap_inspection);
        return true;
      }

      [...]

      Universe::heap()->ensure_parsability(...);
      if (!collect()) {
        log_warning(gc)(...
      }

      Maybe there could be a base class for this case unifying this.

      Probably other issues. Create new issues as appropriate.

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              tschatzl Thomas Schatzl
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