RFR: 8029329: tmtools tests fail with NPE (in the tool) when run with G1 and FlightRecorder

[Stefan Johansson]

On 2013-12-03 19:46, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
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> On 12/2/13 6:54 AM, Stefan Johansson wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> After discussions with Bengt I realized that the limit I actually 
>> want to use is the currently committed number of regions. Here is an 
>> updated webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8029329/webrev.01/
>
> Why committed instead of allocated?  I had thought either would
> be sufficient but that the committed regions that were not
> allocated would be empty (and uninteresting).
>
Both seems to work equally well, since the regions that are allocated 
but not committed will be seen as empty. As I understand it committed 
length is the number of regions we currently have committed memory for 
and allocated is the length for which we have allocated HeapRegions. 
Currently we never de-allocate these and therefor we can have an 
allocated length of 128 but currently only have 64 committed. When 
requesting an iterator for such a heap I would expect only to iterate 
over the regions that are currently in use, not over every region that 
has ever been used. That is why I change the code, do you think this 
makes sense Jon?

Thanks,
Stefan
> Jon
>
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>> On 2013-11-29 14:26, Stefan Johansson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review this fix for:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029329
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8029329/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Summary:
>>> The iterator used by the SA for walking through G1s heap regions 
>>> used the total number of regions as the limit for hasNext. This 
>>> caused a NullPointerException when reaching the first unallocated 
>>> region. Updated the SA to initialize the iterator with the currently 
>>> allocated number of regions as limit instead.
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> * Tested builds through JPRT
>>> * Ran vm.tmtools.testlist throught Aurora and observed no failures 
>>> on the test I expected to pass.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stefan
>>
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