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  24 
  25 #ifndef SHARE_VM_MEMORY_GENREMSET_HPP
  26 #define SHARE_VM_MEMORY_GENREMSET_HPP
  27 
  28 #include "oops/oop.hpp"
  29 
  30 // A GenRemSet provides ways of iterating over pointers accross generations.
  31 // (This is especially useful for older-to-younger.)
  32 
  33 class Generation;
  34 class BarrierSet;
  35 class OopsInGenClosure;
  36 class CardTableRS;
  37 
  38 class GenRemSet: public CHeapObj {
  39   friend class Generation;
  40 
  41   BarrierSet* _bs;
  42 
  43 public:
  44   enum Name {
  45     CardTable,
  46     Other
  47   };
  48 
  49   GenRemSet(BarrierSet * bs) : _bs(bs) {}
  50   GenRemSet() : _bs(NULL) {}
  51 
  52   virtual Name rs_kind() = 0;
  53 
  54   // These are for dynamic downcasts.  Unfortunately that it names the
  55   // possible subtypes (but not that they are subtypes!)  Return NULL if
  56   // the cast is invalide.
  57   virtual CardTableRS* as_CardTableRS() { return NULL; }
  58 
  59   // Return the barrier set associated with "this."
  60   BarrierSet* bs() { return _bs; }
  61 
  62   // Set the barrier set.
  63   void set_bs(BarrierSet* bs) { _bs = bs; }
  64 
  65   // Do any (sequential) processing necessary to prepare for (possibly
  66   // "parallel", if that arg is true) calls to younger_refs_iterate.
  67   virtual void prepare_for_younger_refs_iterate(bool parallel) = 0;
  68 
  69   // Apply the "do_oop" method of "blk" to (exactly) all oop locations
  70   //  1) that are in objects allocated in "g" at the time of the last call
  71   //     to "save_Marks", and
  72   //  2) that point to objects in younger generations.
  73   virtual void younger_refs_iterate(Generation* g, OopsInGenClosure* blk) = 0;
  74 
  75   virtual void younger_refs_in_space_iterate(Space* sp,
  76                                              OopsInGenClosure* cl) = 0;
  77 
  78   // This method is used to notify the remembered set that "new_val" has
  79   // been written into "field" by the garbage collector.
  80   void write_ref_field_gc(void* field, oop new_val);
  81 protected:
  82   virtual void write_ref_field_gc_work(void* field, oop new_val) = 0;
  83 public:
  84 
  85   // A version of the above suitable for use by parallel collectors.
  86   virtual void write_ref_field_gc_par(void* field, oop new_val) = 0;
  87 
  88   // Resize one of the regions covered by the remembered set.
  89   virtual void resize_covered_region(MemRegion new_region) = 0;
  90 
  91   // If the rem set imposes any alignment restrictions on boundaries
  92   // within the heap, this function tells whether they are met.
  93   virtual bool is_aligned(HeapWord* addr) = 0;
  94 
  95   // If the RS (or BS) imposes an aligment constraint on maximum heap size.
  96   // (This must be static, and dispatch on "nm", because it is called
  97   // before an RS is created.)
  98   static uintx max_alignment_constraint(Name nm);
  99 
 100   virtual void verify() = 0;
 101 
 102   // Verify that the remembered set has no entries for
 103   // the heap interval denoted by mr.  If there are any
 104   // alignment constraints on the remembered set, only the
 105   // part of the region that is aligned is checked.
 106   //
 107   //   alignment boundaries
 108   //   +--------+-------+--------+-------+
 109   //         [ region mr              )
 110   //            [ part checked   )
 111   virtual void verify_aligned_region_empty(MemRegion mr) = 0;
 112 
 113   // If appropriate, print some information about the remset on "tty".
 114   virtual void print() {}
 115 
 116   // Informs the RS that the given memregion contains no references to
 117   // younger generations.
 118   virtual void clear(MemRegion mr) = 0;
 119 
 120   // Informs the RS that there are no references to generations
 121   // younger than gen from generations gen and older.
 122   // The parameter clear_perm indicates if the perm_gen's
 123   // remembered set should also be processed/cleared.
 124   virtual void clear_into_younger(Generation* gen, bool clear_perm) = 0;
 125 
 126   // Informs the RS that refs in the given "mr" may have changed
 127   // arbitrarily, and therefore may contain old-to-young pointers.
 128   // If "whole heap" is true, then this invalidation is part of an
 129   // invalidation of the whole heap, which an implementation might
 130   // handle differently than that of a sub-part of the heap.
 131   virtual void invalidate(MemRegion mr, bool whole_heap = false) = 0;
 132 
 133   // Informs the RS that refs in this generation
 134   // may have changed arbitrarily, and therefore may contain
 135   // old-to-young pointers in arbitrary locations. The parameter
 136   // younger indicates if the same should be done for younger generations
 137   // as well. The parameter perm indicates if the same should be done for
 138   // perm gen as well.
 139   virtual void invalidate_or_clear(Generation* gen, bool younger, bool perm) = 0;
 140 };
 141 
 142 #endif // SHARE_VM_MEMORY_GENREMSET_HPP