[9] RFR (XS): 8144024: Octane fails with "memory leak: allocating handle outside HandleMark"

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Okay.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 11/25/15 9:44 AM, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8144024/webrev.00/
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144024
>>
>> Looks fine but
>>
>>>
>>> DependencyContext verification is broken because it can't always
>>> allocate a handle for context holder in appropriate
>>> handle area.
>>
>> Can you explain in more details what happened? What is "appropriate
>> handle area"?
> In reported case, there were no HandleMark allocated in GC code. But instead of adding one, I decided to avoid
> Handle-based verification logic. DependencyContext itself doesn't use any handles, so requiring one just for
> verification purposes is not convenient IMO.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov