RFR: 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.org
Fri Dec 2 02:53:11 UTC 2022


On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:37:56 GMT, Afshin Zafari <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> ### Description
> The UseMallocOnly development option was originally used to detect memory stomping bugs with Arena allocations when the JVM was first in development.
> 
> The option has had a few bugs and is not in general use. There are ideas to add another way of Arena canary checking.
> 
> ### Patch:
> All occurrences of UseMallocOnly are removed.
> 
> ### Tests:
> Local, gTests: resourceArea and Arena
> Mach5: tier1-5

Removal looks good! Nice cleanup.

Thanks.

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11456


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