RDK-588: limit conservative scan range #1416
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Turns out that conservative GC root scanning is going too deep into the stack and this may prevent the collection of objects - see: WebPlatformForEmbedded#1363 The change introduces 'stack guards' that prevent this in particular cases, that is - if there is gloop main loop routine in the stack the GC root stack search will not go deeper that this frame. This avoids some 'false positives' conservative roots that can make the app hold a lot of memory.
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Seems that conservative GC root scanning is going too deep into the stack and this may prevent the collection of objects - see:
#1363
The change introduces 'stack guards' that prevent this in particular cases, that is - if there is gloop main loop routine in the stack the GC root stack search will not go deeper that this frame. This avoids some 'false positives' conservative roots that can make the app hold a lot of memory - in the typical replication scenario around 200MB of memory was often left behind after exiting sky store/show apps (https://stv.prd.sky.ch/store/, https://stv.prd.sky.ch/show/), leading to oom's.