MMTk 0.21.0

0.21.0 (2023-11-03)

What's Changed

Plan

• Move some states from BasePlan to GlobalState by @qinsoon in #949
• Extract set_collection_kind and set_gc_status by @qinsoon in #957
• Expose is_emergency_collection to VM bindings by @wks in #997

Policy

• Clear all side forwarding bits by @wks in #974
• Stop using the name "ForwardingWord" by @wks in #976
• Implement get_gc_trigger() for LockFreeImmortalSpace by @qinsoon in #1003

API

• Expose alloc_slow. Add a section in user guide about allocation optimization by @qinsoon in #967
• Use BumpPointer::default() by @qinsoon in #993
• Fix mention of to_object_reference() in comment by @k-sareen in #998

Documentation

• Fix rustdoc warnings in Rust 1.73 by @qinsoon in #978
• Add a section about debugging tips in user guide by @qinsoon in #987
• Update doc comments by @wks in #1000
• Add document for release by @qinsoon in #1007
• Move constants and add comments for stress copying by @wks in #1008
• Update bibtex of the tracing paper to include the DOI by @caizixian in #1009

CI

• Fix performance baseline workflow by @qinsoon in #971
• Allow auto merge binding PRs by @qinsoon in #988
• Apply a delay before we enable auto merge on a PR by @qinsoon in #992
• Use cargo generate-lockfile to update JikesRVM's Cargo.lock by @qinsoon in #996

Misc

• Add option to exclude kernel events from perf results by @k-sareen in #995

Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0