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

[Erik Helin]

Thanks!

Erik

On 03/27/2013 10:31 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> 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
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