RFR(L) : 8199370: [TESTBUG] Open source vm testbase GC tests

[Erik Helin]

On 05/15/2018 08:58 PM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> please see my answers inline.
> 
> can I consider this RFR as reviewed by you?

Yep!

> Thanks,
> -- Igor
> 
>> On May 14, 2018, at 4:23 AM, Erik Helin <erik.helin at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/08/2018 12:35 AM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> On 05/08/2018 12:35 AM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>> could you please review the patch which open sources GC tests from vm testbase? it introduces the following test groups:
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_g1classunloading
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_compact
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_concurrent
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_container
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_juggle
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_locker
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_ref
>>> - vmTestbase_vm_gc_misc
>>
>> This is a very welcome, and pretty massive, change :) I won't be able to read through each test, there are simple too many, but I can sample a few of them and have a look.
>>
>> On 05/08/2018 12:35 AM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>> As usually w/ VM testbase code, these tests are old, they have been run in hotspot testing for a long period of time. Originally, these tests were run by a test harness different from jtreg and had different build and execution schemes, some parts couldn't be easily translated to jtreg, so tests might have actions or pieces of code which look weird. In a long term, we are planning to rework them.
>>
>> I'm also assuming that to help the open sourcing of these tests, most comments will likely be deferred until later? If so, that is fine with me.
> y, unless it is something very important and cost of delaying changes is high, I'd prefer to defer all comments/improvements till later.

Ok, normally I would like it to be cleaned up prior to pushing, but I'm 
also aware of the history of these tests. Right now it seems more 
valuable to push these tests so we can collaborate on cleaning them up 
in upstream.

>>
>> On 05/08/2018 12:35 AM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199370
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/8199370/webrev.00/index.html
>>
>> Many of the tests are a bit cryptic, but that can be refactored later. Could you please file bugs for the two tests written in shell? Particularly parOld/test.sh should be trivial to rewrite in Java.
> sure, I've filed 8203239 and 8203238.

Thanks!

>> It seems like a lot of tests contains a TEST.properties file with the content `exclusiveAccess.dirs=.`. Could this become the default value somewhere, so we don't need all those TEST.properties files?
> y, but this will require finding a most top directory whose all tests have this TEST.properties file and it will also make it harder to understand how a test is executed. there was/is ongoing discussing w/ Jon on moving 'exclusiveAccess' to test description. anyhow I've filed an RFE to clean that up -- 8203241.

Ok, we can continue the discussion in 8203241.

Thanks,
Erik

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- Igor
>