RFR: 8069011: gc/TestSmallHeap.java failing in nightly

Jesper Wilhelmsson jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Fri Jan 16 15:11:37 UTC 2015


Looks good!
/Jesper

Stefan Johansson skrev den 16/1/15 13:21:
> Hi,
>
> Please review this @requires addition to avoid failures described in:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8069011
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/8069011/hotspot.00
>
> Summary:
> This is a bug of the same kind as JDK-8040935. The test specifies a small heap
> and is then run with -XX:+AggressiveOpts. This causes the JVM to exit during
> startup because a GC is triggered before we are ready to handle one. The fix is
> to add a @requires-statement to ensure AggressiveOpts is not enabled. After many
> discussions this seems to be the preferred solutions among the people I've
> spoken to.
>
> Thanks,
> StefanJ



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