RFR: 8029186: regression-hotspot nightly failure: assert(FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(MaxNewSize) || MaxNewSize < MaxHeapSize) failed

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

Ship it!
/Jesper

Stefan Johansson skrev 25/3/14 16:29:
> Hi,
>
> Please review this fix for:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029186
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8029186/webrev.00/
>
> Summary:
> There have been a lot of bugs due to corner cases with heap sizing flags. This
> change strives to fix this particular problem and at the same time somewhat
> simplify the collector policy. I've also added some assertions to ensure that
> the sizing of the heap is more correct.
>
> Testing:
> * JPRT sanity and JTREG
> * Adhoc aurora run for tmtools tests
> * Script that verifies that we don't get assertions during startup for different
> combinations of NewSize, MaxNewSize, OldSize, Xms and Xmx.
>
> Thanks,
> StefanJ