RFR: 8332936: Test vmTestbase/metaspace/gc/watermark_70_80/TestDescription.java fails with no GC's recorded

[Thomas Schatzl]

On Tue, 28 May 2024 09:35:42 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>>   please review this change to exclude the watermark tests from use with -Xcomp.
>> 
>> The failures reported are related to -Xcomp triggering the wrong kind of garbage collection pauses (CodeCache related GCs instead of Metadata related GCs) the test then fails on.
>> 
>> The proposed solution is to just disable the tests with -Xcomp: the tests are not related to compilation at all.
>> 
>> Testing: local, gha
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>   Thomas
>
> Marked as reviewed by stefank (Reviewer).

Thanks @stefank @albertnetymk for your reviews

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19421#issuecomment-2144715120