RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly tests

[David Holmes]

On 8/01/2015 3:32 PM, Albert Noll wrote:
> So after this change, the tests are not run on platforms although they
> support NMT? If yes, wouldn't it be possible to just not run the test on
> a platforms where NMT is not supported?

That is the crux of the problem to solve: identifying which platforms 
the test can run on and which they can't. At present there are three 
possibilities: no NMT, NMT summary only, full NMT (NMT detail). The 
middle case is the problem. Current proposal is to remove the middle case.

David
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> Albert
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>
> On 01/07/2015 09:57 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> We are trying to get rid of all known failures so unless the test can
>> be modified to run only on the platforms that support NMT (which is my
>> preferred option), I think it is better to exclude the tests than to
>> let them fail on some platforms on a regular basis.
>> /Jesper
>>
>>
>> David Holmes skrev den 7/1/15 02:18:
>>> On 7/01/2015 9:40 AM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
>>>> Hi Coleen and George,
>>>>
>>>> @Coleen: They fail because one of our internal platforms doesn't
>>>> support the
>>>> full feature set of NMT.
>>>
>>> Excluding them completely reduces test coverage. We do we need to
>>> exclude them?
>>> They simply turn up as known failures (of which there are dozens).
>>>
>>> ??
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>> @George: The change looks good.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On
>>>> Behalf Of
>>>> Coleen Phillimore
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:53 PM
>>>> To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>>> Subject: Re: RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly
>>>> tests
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why are these tests failing?  The bug is not helpful.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Coleen
>>>>
>>>> On 1/6/15, 3:49 PM, George Triantafillou wrote:
>>>>> Please review this small fix for JDK-8068540.  The tests were modified
>>>>> with the "@ignore" jtreg tag to exclude them from nightly testing.
>>>>>
>>>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068540
>>>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/
>>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Egtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/>
>>>>>
>>>>> The fix was tested locally on Linux with jtreg and the JPRT hotspot
>>>>> testset.
>>>>>
>>>>> -George
>>>>
>>>>
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