Hi,

I would like purpose this change that allows GC to provide ObjectMarker during JVMTI heap walk.

Currently, JVMTI heap walk uses oop markword's 'marked' pattern to indicate 'visited' oop.

Unfortunately, it conflicts with Shenandoah, who uses the pattern to indicate 'forwarding'. When JVMTI heap walk occurs in some of Shenandoah's concurrent heap (e.g. concurrent evacuation or concurrent reference updating phases), it can result corrupted heap, as it tries to resolve a real oop header as a forwarding pointer.

This patch allows GC to provide ObjectMarker for JVMTI to track 'visited' oop, and uses current implementation as default, so that, it has no impact to GCs other than Shenandoah, who provides its own implementation.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8238633
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/JDK-8238633/webrev.00/index.html

Test:
  hotspot_gc
  vmTestbase_nsk_jdi
  vmTestbase_nsk_jvmti

Thanks,

-Zhengyu


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