Request for review (s) - 8069004: Kitchensink hanged with 16Gb heap and GC pause >30 min

[Jon Masamitsu]

I've had a suggestion for an better fix (thanks, Kim) and will be 
implementing that
and sending out another review request.

Jon


On 03/06/2015 12:02 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> 8069004: Kitchensink hanged with 16Gb heap and GC pause >30 min
>
> The cause of 8069004 is a circularity created in a list of regions.
> This failure has not been reproduced to help diagnose the problem
> further.  This patch saves some information in the code that 
> constructs the
> region list to aid in diagnosing the problem when it reoccurs.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8069004/webrev.00/
>
> Issue
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074576
>
> was created to remove this debugging code in 3 months
> if the problem does not reoccur.
>
> Testing: kitchensink
>