RFR: 8280029: G1: "Overflow during reference processing, can not continue" on x86_32

[Thomas Schatzl]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:24:05 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This should fix the intermittent G1 x86_32 failure in GHA. See more investigation in the bug. I think at this point we are better off bumping the default mark stack size for 32-bit builds. Also fix the error message to be less misleading.
> 
> Additional testing:
>   - [x] Affected test on Linux fastdebug x86_32, 100 repeats; used to fail at about 10th iteration, does not fail anymore;
>   - [x] Linux x86_32 fastdebug `tier1`
>   - [x] Linux x86_32 fastdebug `tier2`
>   - [ ] Linux x86_32 fastdebug `tier3`

I filed [JDK-8280087](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8280087); apparently this has actually been a known issue with the same idea to fix this since the change to just exit the VM has been added...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7109