Re: [Help-smalltalk] GC/grey pages question

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 27/09/2014 18:01, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
> * We don't seem to mprotect the oldspace but the OOP table? Is
> this correct or am I misguided?

We mprotect the oldspace, not the OOP table, in scan_grey_pages:

  _gst_mem_protect ((PTR) node->base, node->n * sizeof(OOP), PROT_READ);


> * We slowly/never remove entries from the greylist? E.g. even
> after doing ObjectMemory compact the greylist is not empty? Is
> this a bug?

After ObjectMemory compact all newly-allocated pages will be grey
because "grey-ness" is removed lazily on the next GC.  I think
"ObjectMemory compact; globalGc" should remove all grey pages or almost
all of them.

Paolo