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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 }