review request (URGENT): 7049122: java/lang/invoke/RicochetTest.java with MAX_ARITY=255 in -Xcomp mode overflows code cache

[Tom Rodriguez]

Looks good.

tom

On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:46 PM, John Rose wrote:

> Summary: reduce the scope of the unit test (mark high water mark of testing with @ignore tags)
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/7049122/webrev.00
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> Compensate somewhat for missing coverage by enabling ValueConversionsTest, which tests additional varargs array types.
> 
> Testing:  jtreg runs the modified tests on x86, with and without -Xcomp -Xbatch, 32 and 64 bit (b145 preview).
> 
> This fails on adm64, with about 8000 adapters:
>  jtreg -Xcomp -Xbatch -DValueConversionsTest.MAX_ARITY=255 -jdk:$JAVA7X64_BUILD test/sun/invoke/util/ValueConversionsTest.java
> 
> By comparison, this arity limit (which is about 3x the proposed size) succeeds in about 10 seconds:
>  jtreg -Xcomp -Xbatch -DValueConversionsTest.MAX_ARITY=150 -jdk:$JAVA7X64_BUILD test/sun/invoke/util/ValueConversionsTest.java
> 
> There is no testing yet on SPARC.
> 
> -- John