RFR (S): 8010818: NPG: Remove metaspace memory pools

[Stefan Karlsson]

Looks good.

StefanK

On 03/26/2013 04:03 PM, Erik Helin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I pushed "8000754: NPG: Implement a MemoryPool MXBean for Metaspace" 
> last Friday (April 22). Unfortunately, the change triggered a couple 
> of bugs:
>
> - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010719
>   8010719 : NPG: The metaspace memory pools acquires Metaspace
>             allocation lock out of order with Service_lock
> - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010734
>   8010734 : NPG: The test MemoryTest.java needs to be updated to
>             support metaspace
> - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010730
>   8010730 : NPG: Bad assert in JVM_ENTRY(jobject,
>             jmm_GetMemoryUsage(JNIEnv* env, jboolean heap))
>
> In order to not cause disturbance upstream (in hotspot-main), it is 
> better to revert the change 8000754, since these bugs are only 
> triggered due to the metaspace memory pools.
>
> The reverse patch was created by running:
>
>   hg diff -r 4321 -r 4322 --reverse
>
> in the hotspot-gc/hotspot repistory.
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8010818/webrev.00/
>
> Bug:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8010818
>
> Testing:
> - All tests that failed during nightly testing are now passing
> - JPRT
>
> Thanks,
> Erik