Request for Review (xs) - 8159073: Error handling incomplete when creating GC threads lazily

[Erik Helin]

On 2016-06-23, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> The change has grown some (small now, not extra small).
> 
> Added logging for the case where thread creation fails.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8159073/webrev_delta_00_01a/
> 
> Added fixes for failed thread creation.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8159073/webrev_delta_00_01b/
> 
> Complete fix with test added.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8159073/webrev.01/
> 
> Tested with gc_test_suite with new diagnostic flag on and off.

Sorry, I have to step back from this review. I started looking at
version 01 of the webrev and rather quickly realized that I don't have
enough knowledge of workgroup.{hpp,cpp} to verify that the patch is
correct.

Hopefully someone else with more experience in this part of the code can
have a look.

Thanks,
Erik

> Thanks.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 6/21/2016 1:52 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 6/21/2016 12:22 PM, Derek White wrote:
> >>On 6/9/16 4:33 AM, Erik Helin wrote:
> >>>On 2016-06-08, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> >>>>https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8159073
> >>>>
> >>>>The error handling in add_workers() was not treating the
> >>>>non-initializing
> >>>>case correctly.  If in the non-initializing case, it is OK to fail the
> >>>>creation
> >>>>of additional threads but the number of created threads should not be
> >>>>incremented nor non-existent thread started.
> >>>>
> >>>>http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8159073/webrev.00/
> >>>Should we add some logging in case the code fail to create a worker
> >>>thread (in the non initializing case)?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Erik
> >>>
> >>>>Tested with gc_test_suite with UseDynamicGCThreads turned on.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>Jon
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi Jon,
> >>
> >>Looks good, but I agree with Eric that logging would be nice.
> >
> >Derek,
> >
> >Thanks for the review.  Unfortunately there is more code than I've
> >fixed that need to tolerate thread creation failure so I'm still working
> >on a complete fix.
> >
> >Jon
> >>
> >> - Derek
> >>
> >
>