RFR(XS): 8008188: Add regression test for 8005875

[Leonid Mesnik]

John

This test should start failing in non-G1 baseline. Even 
"IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions" is added I think it should fail because of 
incompatible GC combinations.

Also I think that investigation parent process from child is not safe 
and make analysis harder if something going wrong.

Also there was a bug  15947151 - JDK6 JMAP -HEAP LOCKS post 6u29.
Here are comments from Kevin:

/@ Using Runtime.exec to launch a child process which then attaches back 
to the/
/@ parent to run diagnostics just sounds risky.  Diagnostics may need to 
suspend/
/@ the parent JVM.  The child needs the parent to read buffers such that 
the /
/@ child may write.  Buffering usually lets this succeed, but there could/
/@ be some risk./


So I would prefer to avoid such schemes if we don't want to test them.

Leonid

On 02/14/2013 04:51 AM, John Cuthbertson wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Can I have a couple of volunteers review the regression test for 
> 8005875 - the webrev can be found at: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~johnc/8008188/webrev.0/
>
> The test is very simple and issues "jcmd <pid> Thread.print" against 
> itself. With G1 and PGCT=0, and before the fix for 8005875, this 
> command crashes the VM.
>
> Testing:
> jdk8 build (b76) with fix for 8005875; jdk8 build (b71) without fix 
> for 8005875; Changed the test options to run the test with the invalid 
> flag -XX:+UseG2GC.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JohnC


-- 
Leonid Mesnik
JVM SQE

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