RFC 7038914: VM could throw uncaught OOME in ReferenceHandler thread

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 09:45 +1000, David Holmes wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 6:53 AM, Dean Long wrote:
> > On 5/10/2013 1:22 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/10/2013 10:08 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 05/10/2013 08:10 PM, Dean Long wrote:
> >>>> If you really want to bullet-proof ReferenceHandler (and other
> >>>> system threads) against OOME caused by native allocations,
> >>>> then don't forget about monitor inflation if there is contention for
> >>>> "lock" :-)
>
> 
> Right - most C-heap allocation failures in the VM result in an abort but 
> some will convert to OOME (such as native thread creation related failures).
> 
> Any test that tries to force an OOME at a particular operation is going 
> to be fragile because you can't know what other allocations might be 
> needed under the covers. As Peter already discovered it might occur 
> during the "new" of InterruptedException, or it might happen during the 
> load/initialization of InterruptedException. So pre-initializing 
> InterruptedException is probably a wise thing to do.
> 

That means what? Should I file a new CR (against what component?) for
that (making InterruptedException a pre-initialized exception)?

Thanks,
Thomas