RFR for JDK-7027502: Test failures in demo/jvmti/hprof testcases, need to be othervm

[Tristan Yan]

Hi David
I wasn't able to reproduce this failure either in local or in our same 
binaries running(This is a continuous running with same JDK binaries). 
So intention for this code change is bringing this test back;  add some 
debug info and try to avoid possible issues in this test. I agree this 
code change won't solve the failure happened. But this test was put into 
ProblemList two years ago better move for this is move out it from 
ProblemList and trace down the issue in our normal nightly.
Thank you
Tristan

On 01/10/2014 06:35 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 9/01/2014 10:14 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 09/01/2014 11:27, David Holmes wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay I think I get it now. Both MonitorTest and WaitersTest use the
>>> Context class, so if both tests run in the same VM the second test
>>> will see the static total_turns_taken and "turn" in the state they
>>> were left from the first test - hence the second test will always
>>> fail. The bug report suggests making the tests othervm to avoid the
>>> problem but instead you have changed from using static state to
>>> instance state so that there is no interference.
>> I haven't been following this one closely but I thought that jtreg
>> created a class loader for each test (irrespective of mode) so I
>> wouldn't expect statics to be an issue.
>
> That aside DemoRun forks off its own JVM to run a given test anyway!
>
> So I don't understand how the proposed fixes could actually be 
> addressing the hangs that are occurring. Even if the statics were 
> being shared I don't see how that leads to the failure mode in the bug 
> report.
>
> David
>
>> -Alan.