jcoomes [Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:08 -0800] rev 1668
6578152: fill_region_with_object has usability and safety issues
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr
ysr [Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:46:10 -0800] rev 1667
6782457: CMS: Livelock in CompactibleFreeListSpace::block_size()
6736295: SIGSEGV in product jvm, assertion "these are the only valid states during a mark sweep" in fastdebug
Summary: Restructured the code in the perm gen allocation retry loop so as to avoid "safepoint-blocking" on locks, in this case the Heap_lock, while holding uninitialized allocated heap storage.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jcoomes, jmasa, poonam