RFR (S): 8023158 - hotspot/test/gc/7168848/HumongousAlloc.java fails 14 full gcs, expect 0 full gcs

[Per Liden]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for reviewing. Updated webrev here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8023158/webrev.02/

Comments inline.

On 2013-09-24 14:49, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:13 +0200, Per Liden wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8023158/webrev.01/
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023158
>>
>> Summary: A side effect of fixing JDK-8020155 was that the HumongousAlloc
>> test for G1 broke. This test is designed to make sure than an allocation
>> of an humongous object initiates a mark phase if that allocation pushes
>> the heap size above InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent. Due to the changes
>> made in JDK-8020155 this test fails since it instead provokes Full GCs.
>> This patch fixes the test. Also renamed the test according to the new
>> naming schema.
> - the name of the class does not correspond to the java file name, so it
> does not compile (probably a last-minute change).

Moved the file last minute... doh!

> - one suggestion for the test: please assign the dummy LOB to a global
> static instead of a local variable. The compiler can remove that
> allocation easily, say when run with -Xcomp and the server compiler. I
> tried adding "-Xcomp" and "-server" to the invocation of the
> ProcessBuilder and it did not fail though. It may not hurt to do that
> anyway.
Yep, will do.

>
> One personal style comment: not sure if you need to prefix all variables
> in the test with "g1", but that's just my opinion. I am fine either way.
I'll drop those.

cheers,
/Per

>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>