> The current loom code makes some assumptions about GC that will not work with 
> generational ZGC. We should make this code more GC agnostic, and provide a 
> better interface for talking to the GC.
> 
> In particular,
> 1) All GCs have a way of encoding oops inside of the heap differently to oops 
> outside of the heap. For non-ZGC collectors, that is compressed oops. For 
> ZGC, that is colored pointers. With generational ZGC, pointers on-heap will 
> be colored and pointers off-heap will be "colorless". So we need to 
> generalize encoding and decoding of oops in the heap, for loom.
> 
> 2) The cont_oop is located on a stack. In order to access it we need to 
> start_processing on that thread, if it isn't the current thread. This 
> happened to work so far for ZGC, because the stale pointers had enough 
> colors. But with generational ZGC, these on-stack oops will be colorless, so 
> we have to be more accurate here and ensure processing really has started on 
> any thread that cont_oop is used on. To make life a bit easier, I'm moving 
> the oop processing responsibility for these oops to the thread instead. 
> Currently there is no more than one of these, so doing it lazily per frame 
> seems a bit overkill.
> 
> 3) Refactoring the stack chunk allocation code
> 
> Tested with tier1-5 and manually running Skynet. No regressions detected. We 
> have also been running with this (yet a slightly different backend) in the 
> generational ZGC repo for a while now.

Erik Österlund has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains seven commits:

 - PPC support
 - Merge branch 'master' into 8296875_refactor_loom_code
 - Patricio concerns
 - Fix Richard comments
 - Indentation fix
 - Fix verification and RISC-V support
 - Generational ZGC: Loom support

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