src/share/vm/memory/genCollectedHeap.cpp

rev 2870 : 7117303: VM uses non-monotonic time source and complains that it is non-monotonic
Summary: Replaces calls to os::javaTimeMillis(), which does not guarantee montonicity, in GC code to os::javaTimeNanos() with a suitable conversion factor. os::javaTimeNanos is guaranteed monotonic if the underlying platform provides a monotonic timesource. Changes in OS files are to make use of the newly defined constants in globalDefinitions.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes

@@ -1458,29 +1458,25 @@
     _time = MIN2(_time, gen->time_of_last_gc(_now));
   }
 };
 
 jlong GenCollectedHeap::millis_since_last_gc() {
-  jlong now = os::javaTimeMillis();
+  // We need a montonically increasing time in ms but os::javaTimeMillis()
+  // does not guarantee montonicity.
+  jlong now = os::javaTimeNanos() / NANOSECS_PER_MILLISEC;
   GenTimeOfLastGCClosure tolgc_cl(now);
   // iterate over generations getting the oldest
   // time that a generation was collected
   generation_iterate(&tolgc_cl, false);
   tolgc_cl.do_generation(perm_gen());
-  // XXX Despite the assert above, since javaTimeMillis()
-  // doesnot guarantee monotonically increasing return
-  // values (note, i didn't say "strictly monotonic"),
-  // we need to guard against getting back a time
-  // later than now. This should be fixed by basing
-  // on someting like gethrtime() which guarantees
-  // monotonicity. Note that cond_wait() is susceptible
-  // to a similar problem, because its interface is
-  // based on absolute time in the form of the
-  // system time's notion of UCT. See also 4506635
-  // for yet another problem of similar nature. XXX
+  
+  // javaTimeNanos() is guaranteed to be monotonically non-decreasing
+  // provided the underlying platform provides such a time source
+  // (and it is bug free). So we still have to guard against getting
+  // back a time later than 'now'.
   jlong retVal = now - tolgc_cl.time();
   if (retVal < 0) {
-    NOT_PRODUCT(warning("time warp: %d", retVal);)
+    NOT_PRODUCT(warning("time warp: "INT64_FORMAT, retVal);)
     return 0;
   }
   return retVal;
 }