RFR: 8143587: G1 crashes with humongous object of size that almost fills an heap region

[David Lindholm]

Jon,

Sorry, I don't really understand. The filler objects are needed to fix 
"8138681: Runtime.getFreeMemory() reports wrong value after humongous 
allocation."


Thanks,
David

On 2015-11-24 19:54, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> David,
>
> Could be always just set top as you've done for the case where there
> isn't room for a filler object at the end of a humongous region?  And
>  never use a filler object there?
>
> Jon
>
> On 11/24/2015 04:50 AM, David Lindholm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After offline discussions with Mikael I have updated the webrev (and 
>> the title of the bug).
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~david/JDK-8143587/webrev.01/
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> On 2015-11-24 11:58, David Lindholm wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review the following patch that fixes the case where we 
>>> allocate a humongous object, and where the space left in the 
>>> humongous region cannot fit a filler object. In that case we must 
>>> set top of the last heap region to the end of the object. Also, 
>>> there is a new jtreg test which crashes the JVM before this patch, 
>>> and works fine after.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143587
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~david/JDK-8143587/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Testing: Passed jprt including new test.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>
>

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