RFR: 8316632: Shenandoah: Raise OOME when gc threshold is exceeded

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:41:52 GMT, William Kemper <wkemper at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Shenandoah will run back-to-back full GCs and _almost_ grind mutator progress to a halt before eventually exhausting memory. This change will have Shenandoah raise a gc threshold exceeded exception if the collector fails to make progress after `ShenandoahNoProgressThreshold` full GC cycles (default is 3).

src/hotspot/share/gc/shenandoah/shenandoahHeap.cpp line 940:

> 938:   *gc_overhead_limit_was_exceeded = false;
> 939:   ShenandoahAllocRequest req = ShenandoahAllocRequest::for_shared(size);
> 940:   if (get_gc_no_progress_count() > ShenandoahNoProgressThreshold) {

Move this block to `ShenandoahHeap::allocate_memory`? This would require adding a (default) argument to that method, but it is a good tradeoff for putting all mechanics around this into a single method.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15852#discussion_r1332636658