RFR: 8309048: Remove malloc locker test case
Coleen Phillimore
coleenp at openjdk.org
Tue May 30 19:06:54 UTC 2023
On Mon, 29 May 2023 13:14:24 GMT, Leo Korinth <lkorinth at openjdk.org> wrote:
> There is a bunch of tests that are used to test critical section/gc locker. One of the test is named malloc. In that test, JNI code is doing a loop of `malloc()` followed `sleep()` followed by a `free()`. There is no JVM lock implementation to be tested on malloc/free. Let us save test time, code complexity and confusion by removing this test.
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> (Oracle) hs-tier5 testing passed on x86-64.
This looks like a nice cleanup. I think we should migrate these tests into the tests/hotspot/gc directory and reconcile duplicates with other tests that do the same thing. This could be a future RFE/improvement.
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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14201#pullrequestreview-1451637547
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