RFR: 8061467: Bad page size passed to setup_large_pages() on Solaris

[Erik Helin]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for handling this!

Erik

On 2014-11-05 16:14, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    since Erik is on vacation and this bug prevents a lot of tests from
> running, I took over and added a (simple) regression test case.
>
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8061467
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8061467/webrev/
>
> Testing:
> jprt, Solaris numa machine showing the crash before, and no crash after
> the change, local testing, jprt test case runs
>
> Since the test is extremely simple (class with empty main method), I am
> going to keep Erik as the original author of this change as his change
> is the one that required the hard work.
>
> Thanks,
>    Thomas
>
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 13:09 +0100, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 19:10 +0100, Erik Helin wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> this small patch fixes a call to Solaris::setup_large_pages that does
>>> not check if the `alignment_hint` parameter is a valid page size (the
>>> only such call left).
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8061467/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Bug:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8061467
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>> - Verified that the fix solves the issue on a Solaris machine that
>>>     supported NUMA.
>>> - JPRT
>>
>>    looks good. Could you add a simple regression test like the one
>> suggested in the CR?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Thomas
>>
>>
>
>