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

[Vladimir Ivanov]

Thanks, Vladimir.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 11/25/15 9:11 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> 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