RFR(S): 8159156: [TESTBUG] ReserveMemory test is not useful on Aix.

[Coleen Phillimore]

I'll sponsor it.  Since it's small it only needs David's review so I'll 
use the patch in the webrev.  It does looks fine to me.
thanks,
Coleen

On 6/14/16 10:06 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could someone please sponsor this tiny fix?
>
> Thanks,
>    Goetz.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>> Sent: Freitag, 10. Juni 2016 10:29
>> To: 'David Holmes' <david.holmes at oracle.com>; hotspot-runtime-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: RE: RFR(S): 8159156: [TESTBUG] ReserveMemory test is not useful
>> on Aix.
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> you are right, that's much better.
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/8159156-aixResMemTest/webrev.02/
>>
>> Best regards,
>>    Goetz.
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Holmes [mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com]
>>> Sent: Freitag, 10. Juni 2016 03:40
>>> To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; hotspot-runtime-
>>> dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: RFR(S): 8159156: [TESTBUG] ReserveMemory test is not useful
>>> on Aix.
>>>
>>> Hi Goetz,
>>>
>>> On 9/06/2016 11:36 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Another small test fix for Aix. Aix does commit on touch, i.e., the page is
>>> just
>>>> commited when this test wants to force an error.
>>>> So I just skip this test on aix.
>>> I think the preferred approach is to use an @requires clause to exclude
>>> this test from running on AIX.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> I also adapted the other checks for OSes to use Platform.java.
>>>>
>>>> Please review this change. I please need a sponsor.
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/8159156-
>>> aixResMemTest/webrev/
>>>> I ran the test on ppc, linuxx86_64 and darwinintel.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>    Goetz.
>>>>