RFR: 8309048: Remove malloc locker test case

Leo Korinth lkorinth at openjdk.org
Wed May 31 08:59:11 UTC 2023


On Mon, 29 May 2023 13:14:24 GMT, Leo Korinth <lkorinth at openjdk.org> wrote:

> There is a bunch of tests that are used to test critical section/gc locker. One of the test is named malloc. In that test, JNI code is doing a loop of `malloc()` followed `sleep()` followed by a `free()`. There is no JVM lock implementation to be tested on malloc/free. Let us save test time, code complexity and confusion by removing this test. 
> 
> (Oracle) hs-tier5 testing passed on x86-64.

Thanks David, Thomas, Coleen and Leonid! I am looking into further cleanups...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14201#issuecomment-1569773788


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