RFR: JDK-8115868: 32-bit JVM failed to start from a large network filesystem

[Mikael Gerdin]

On 2015-12-16 09:24, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
> Hi Kumar,
>
> On 2015-12-15 16:54, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review fix for: JDK-8115868
>>
>> The webrev is here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8115868/webrev.0/
>
> Since I don't feel qualified to comment on the actual code changes I
> don't consider this a code review but I looked at the diffs and they
> make sense to me.
>
> I have however tested this fix and verified that it resolves the issues
> in the launcher.

And as for the changes required for the VM, would it be appropriate to 
clone 8115868 and move it to hotspot/runtime instead of pushing the VM 
fix under the same bug number?

/Mikael

>
> /Mikael
>
>>
>> The background:
>> The launcher uses stat(2) to check for the existence of a file,
>> unfortunately
>> on 32-bit system with large file systems causes the inode storage to
>> overflow
>> causing the syscall to return EOVERFLOW.
>>
>> Solution:
>> * stat(2)  replaced with access(3), in most cases.
>> * jbs is marked noreg-hard hard to replicate the problem
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kumar
>>
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