review(XS): 7087583: Hotspot fails to allocate heap with mmap(MAP_HUGETLB)

[Igor Veresov]

 Thank you, Ramki! 

igor

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Y. S. Ramakrishna wrote:

> Looks good to me.
> 
> -- ramki
> 
> On 09/06/11 14:38, Igor Veresov wrote:
> > Hotspot will fail allocating the heap on linux >= 2.6.32 if there're more than 1 large page present but not enough to cover all the heap. The solution is to try small pages if mmap(MAP_HUGETLB) fails and also apply madvise(MADV_HUGETLB) in case some pages are freed by the time we touch this space. 
> > 
> > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iveresov/7087583/webrev.00/
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > igor