On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:39:41 GMT, Justin King <jck...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove abstraction that is a holdover from Solaris. Direct usages of 
>> `MmapArrayAllocator` have been switched to normal `malloc`. The 
>> justification is that none of the code paths are called from signal 
>> handlers, so using `mmap` directly does not make sense and is potentially 
>> slower than going through `malloc` which can potentially re-use memory 
>> without making any system calls. The remaining usages of `ArrayAllocator` 
>> and `MallocArrayAllocator` are equivalent.
>
> Justin King has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Apply patch from stefank@
>   
>   Signed-off-by: Justin King <jck...@google.com>

Restored `mmap` for G1, though in the future it might make sense to switch to 
just using malloc.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11931

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