RFR: 8226236: [TESTBUG] win32: gc/metaspace/TestCapacityUntilGCWrapAround.java fails

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:00:37 GMT, Yasumasa Suenaga <ysuenaga at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Originally filed at AdoptOpenJDK:
> https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-tests/issues/1162
> 
> The test fails on 32bit windows with:
> 
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: WB_IncMetaspaceCapacityUntilGC: could not increase capacity until GC due to contention
> with another thread
>         at sun.hotspot.WhiteBox.incMetaspaceCapacityUntilGC(Native Method)
>         at TestCapacityUntilGCWrapAround.main(TestCapacityUntilGCWrapAround.java:51)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
>         at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:127)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> 
> `TestCapacityUntilGCWrapAround` passes `4GB - 1` to `incMetaspaceCapacityUntilGC()`. It seems to be too big.
> And also this code seems to want to check the behavior when `_capacity_until_gc` is overflown. White box test would
> throw ISE when it hapen. So we need to handle it correctly.

Current patch makes `gc/metaspace` tests pass on `x86_32` for me. They used to fail as described.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/628