RFR (S) 8213721 : [Graal] Tests vmTestbase/nsk/stress/except/except* may be encountering SEGV during out-of-memory conditions

[David Holmes]

Re-directing to hotspot-runtime-dev ...

On 21/11/2018 1:38 pm, JC Beyler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Could I get a review for this small change for the except* tests:
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jcbeyler/8213721/webrev.00/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213721
> 
> The bug contains a good explanation of why this is required.

This looks good to me - but then I'm biased :)

Thanks,
David

> After the webrev, the tests no longer fail due to a SIGSEV with the flags:
> 
> -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+EnableJVMCI -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler 
> -XX:+TraceExceptions -Dgraal.PrintCompilation=true -XX:+PrintCompilation 
> -XX:+TraceDeoptimization
> 
>   (except010.java failed due to a timeout and except004.java failed due 
> to an OOME from a Graal thread).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jc