RFR: 8284274: Error reporting crashes because missing ResourceMarks

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:01:15 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Taking the suggestion from @stefank in the bug report, disable the ResourceMark missing assert during error reporting.  There's a ResourceArea in the thread that can be used.  Added a test.
> Tested with tier1-4 on x86 and aarch64 platforms.

Hi Coleen,

Looks good!

One query below.

Thanks,
David

src/hotspot/share/utilities/vmError.cpp line 550:

> 548:   // error handler after a secondary crash works.
> 549:   STEP("test secondary crash 1")
> 550:     if (_verbose && TestCrashInErrorHandler == 14) {

Where does the 14 come from ??

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8201