Bug 180315

Summary: forEachLiveCell should be safe in the case of concurrent aboutToMarkSlow() without grabbing a lock for each call to isLive
Product: WebKit Reporter: Filip Pizlo <fpizlo>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: WebKit Nightly Build   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 165909    

Filip Pizlo
Reported 2017-12-02 11:20:10 PST
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Filip Pizlo
Comment 1 2017-12-02 11:58:34 PST
It just occurred to me that the algorithm for forEachLiveCell could be: - If the block is allocated, just walk all objects. - If the block has newly allocated at the outset, then walk that. I think that grabbing the lock at the beginning just to verify that newly allocated is set up is sufficient. - Otherwise, walk the mark bits, and recheck the state of the block at the end. If the block is still in the mark bits state, then we're done. If it's not, then rewalk it.
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