RFR: 8016276: CMS concurrentMarkSweepGeneration contains lots of unnecessary allocation failure handling

David Lindholm david.lindholm at oracle.com
Wed Apr 1 07:13:11 UTC 2015


Hi,

Please review this fix that removes unnecessary error handling from 
concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp. The error handling is performed in 
AllocateHeap(), which will exit the vm on malloc failure. The error 
handling in concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp could never been reached.

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~david/JDK-8016276/webrev.00/
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016276

Tesing: Passed JPRT


Thanks,
David



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