Fixing sticky immix #32
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At least one of the issues with sticky immix back ported to v1.9.2+RAI is that bindings may occur in the remset. However, bindings are currently skipped when scanned by MMTk since they are allocated as buffers. Therefore, we need a way to specify which bindings should actually be scanned since they were added via write barrier.
Possible sources of problems that haven't been verified yet:
(i) can the
bits.gcvalue change after being set by the write barrier?(ii) should we reset the value after the object has been scanned?