RFR(s): 8151283: Implement setting jtreg @requires property vm.isG1Supported.

[Stefan Johansson]

Hi Dima,

I don't know the code and the way this is invoked good enough to do a 
proper review, but I have a style comment. Wouldn't it be nice to only 
call the value "vm.gc.G1", and have:
@requires vm.gc.G1

I feel that "acceptable" provide very little information and what we 
want to @require is that the test is only run with G1 (when supported) 
and I think that is clear from such syntax. Comments?

Thanks,
Stefan

On 2016-06-10 18:04, Dmitry Fazunenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a couple of Reviewers for a simple change, which 
> allows to skip tests depending on non supported garbage collectors.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfazunen/8151283/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151283
>
> The fix introduces four new requires boolean properties:
>      vm.gc.G1.acceptable
>      vm.gc.Serial.acceptable
>      vm.gc.Parallel.acceptable
>      vm.gc.ConcMarkSweep.acceptable
> Which are set by the jtreg plugin prior the test execution starts.
> After that fix we will be able to replace in tests:
>    @requires vm.gc == null | vm.gc == "G1"
> with
>    @requires vm.gc.G1.acceptable
>
> 'vm.gc.G1.acceptable' will be evaluated to 'false' not only if other 
> GC is set externally, but also if G1 is not supported.
> In other words the fix allows not to run GC specific tests in not 
> applicable configurations.
>
> Thanks,
> Dima
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