RFR (XS): 8014890 : Reference queues may return more entries than expected

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 15:53 -0700, Mandy Chung wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed analysis.
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8014890/webrev/
> 
> The fix looks good.  I was able to reproduce the failure with the
> test case in the bug report running with jdk8 b94 fastdebug build.
> But the new regression test doesn't fail (I tried solaris-i586).
> Did it fail on your system?
> 

Yes, 100% on my developer machine. I will try to modify it to make it
fail on more machines (increase number of runs).

It is hard to reproduce such things consistently, but I think we nailed
down the issue and that's probably what counts in such cases.

Also consider that this issue has likely been present since quite some
time, and has only been noticed and investigated just now.

> I can sponsor your fix.

Thanks,
  Thomas