RFR: 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option [v2]
Thomas Stuefe
stuefe at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 5 13:08:27 UTC 2022
On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 10:57:27 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
>
> Afshin Zafari has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
>
> - 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option
> - 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option
> - 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option
> - UseMallocOnly instances are removed
Thank you! Looks good to me. I can sponsor for you, but I believe you need integrate first.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11456
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