Integrated: 8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option

Afshin Zafari duke at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 5 13:33:52 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

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: bd381886
Author:    Afshin Zafari <afshin.zafari at oracle.com>
Committer: Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/bd381886e0f39d0e48b555b5e3167565d6a6b40d
Stats:     220 lines in 9 files changed: 1 ins; 197 del; 22 mod

8297766: Remove UseMallocOnly development option

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stuefe, dholmes

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


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