src/share/vm/memory/metablock.cpp

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24
25 #include "precompiled.hpp"
26 #include "memory/allocation.hpp"
27 #include "memory/metablock.hpp"
28 #include "utilities/copy.hpp"
29 #include "utilities/debug.hpp"
30
31 // Blocks of space for metadata are allocated out of Metachunks.
32 //
33 // Metachunk are allocated out of MetadataVirtualspaces and once
34 // allocated there is no explicit link between a Metachunk and
35 // the MetadataVirtualspaces from which it was allocated.
36 //
37 // Each SpaceManager maintains a
38 // list of the chunks it is using and the current chunk. The current
39 // chunk is the chunk from which allocations are done. Space freed in
40 // a chunk is placed on the free list of blocks (BlockFreelist) and
41 // reused from there.
42 //
43 // Future modification
44 //
45 // The Metachunk can conceivable be replaced by the Chunk in
46 // allocation.hpp. Note that the latter Chunk is the space for
47 // allocation (allocations from the chunk are out of the space in
48 // the Chunk after the header for the Chunk) where as Metachunks
49 // point to space in a VirtualSpace. To replace Metachunks with
50 // Chunks, change Chunks so that they can be allocated out of a VirtualSpace.
51 size_t Metablock::_min_block_byte_size = sizeof(Metablock);
52
53 // New blocks returned by the Metaspace are zero initialized.
54 // We should fix the constructors to not assume this instead.
55 Metablock* Metablock::initialize(MetaWord* p, size_t word_size) {
56 if (p == NULL) {
57 return NULL;
58 }
59
60 Metablock* result = (Metablock*) p;
61
62 // Clear the memory
63 Copy::fill_to_aligned_words((HeapWord*)result, word_size);
64 #ifdef ASSERT
65 result->set_word_size(word_size);
66 #endif
67 return result;
68 }

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