RFR(L) : 8199370: [TESTBUG] Open source vm testbase GC tests

[Igor Ignatyev]

Erik, Magnus, thank you for reviewing build change.

can someone from GC people Review the rest?

-- Igor

> On May 8, 2018, at 2:06 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-05-08 00:35, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/8199370/webrev.00/index.html
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> could you please review the patch which open sources GC tests from vm testbase? it introduces the following test groups:
>> - vmTestbase_vm_g1classunloading
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_compact
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_concurrent
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_container
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_juggle
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_locker
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_ref
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_misc
>> 
>> besides these test groups, which split tests by functionality under test, the patch also adds test groups used only for test selection purposes:
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc which includes all vmTestbase_vm_gc_* test groups
>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_quick -- "quick" tests from vmTestbase_vm_gc test group
>> - vmTestbase_largepages which consists of tests which are believed to be good candidate to test largepage. this group is used in our testing w/ external vm flags and/or on pre-configured hosts.
>> 
>> As usually w/ VM testbase code, these tests are old, they have been run in hotspot testing for a long period of time. Originally, these tests were run by a test harness different from jtreg and had different build and execution schemes, some parts couldn't be easily translated to jtreg, so tests might have actions or pieces of code which look weird. In a long term, we are planning to rework them.
>> 
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199370
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/8199370/webrev.00/index.html
> Build changes look good.
> 
> /Magnus
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -- Igor