Waiting for sweeper threads is last resort in SlowAllocateRaw.

src/spaces.cc

 // Copyright 2011 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "src/v8.h"
 
 #include "src/full-codegen.h"
 #include "src/macro-assembler.h"
 #include "src/mark-compact.h"
 #include "src/msan.h"
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     int remaining =
         static_cast<int>(allocation_info_.limit() - allocation_info_.top());
     heap()->CreateFillerObjectAt(allocation_info_.top(), remaining);
 
     allocation_info_.set_top(NULL);
     allocation_info_.set_limit(NULL);
   }
 }
 
 
+HeapObject* PagedSpace::WaitForSweeperThreadsAndRetryAllocation(
+    int size_in_bytes) {
+  MarkCompactCollector* collector = heap()->mark_compact_collector();
+
+  // If sweeper threads are still running, wait for them.
+  if (collector->IsConcurrentSweepingInProgress()) {
+    collector->WaitUntilSweepingCompleted();
+
+    // After waiting for the sweeper threads, there may be new free-list
+    // entries.
+    return free_list_.Allocate(size_in_bytes);
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+
 HeapObject* PagedSpace::SlowAllocateRaw(int size_in_bytes) {
   // Allocation in this space has failed.
 
   // If sweeper threads are active, try to re-fill the free-lists.
   MarkCompactCollector* collector = heap()->mark_compact_collector();
   if (collector->IsConcurrentSweepingInProgress()) {
     collector->RefillFreeList(this);
 
     // Retry the free list allocation.
     HeapObject* object = free_list_.Allocate(size_in_bytes);
     if (object != NULL) return object;
   }
 
   // Free list allocation failed and there is no next page.  Fail if we have
   // hit the old generation size limit that should cause a garbage
   // collection.
-  if (!heap()->always_allocate() &&
-      heap()->OldGenerationAllocationLimitReached()) {
-    // If sweeper threads are active, wait for them at that point.
-     if (collector->IsConcurrentSweepingInProgress()) {
-       collector->WaitUntilSweepingCompleted();
-
-       // After waiting for the sweeper threads, there may be new free-list
-       // entries.
-       HeapObject* object = free_list_.Allocate(size_in_bytes);
-       if (object != NULL) return object;
-     }
-
-    return NULL;
+  if (!heap()->always_allocate()
+      && heap()->OldGenerationAllocationLimitReached()) {
+    // If sweeper threads are active, wait for them at that point and steal
+    // elements form their free-lists.
+    HeapObject* object = WaitForSweeperThreadsAndRetryAllocation(size_in_bytes);
+    if (object != NULL) return object;
   }
 
   // Try to expand the space and allocate in the new next page.
   if (Expand()) {
     ASSERT(CountTotalPages() > 1 || size_in_bytes <= free_list_.available());
     return free_list_.Allocate(size_in_bytes);
   }
 
-  // Finally, fail.
-  return NULL;
+  // If sweeper threads are active, wait for them at that point and steal
+  // elements form their free-lists. Allocation may still fail their which
+  // would indicate that there is not enough memory for the given allocation.
+  return WaitForSweeperThreadsAndRetryAllocation(size_in_bytes);
 }
 
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 void PagedSpace::ReportCodeStatistics(Isolate* isolate) {
   CommentStatistic* comments_statistics =
       isolate->paged_space_comments_statistics();
   ReportCodeKindStatistics(isolate->code_kind_statistics());
   PrintF("Code comment statistics (\"   [ comment-txt   :    size/   "
          "count  (average)\"):\n");
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     object->ShortPrint();
     PrintF("\n");
   }
   printf(" --------------------------------------\n");
   printf(" Marked: %x, LiveCount: %x\n", mark_size, LiveBytes());
 }
 
 #endif  // DEBUG
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal