RFR(XS): 8211287: ClassPathTests.java fails due to "Unable to map MiscData shared space at required address."

[Calvin Cheung]

Hi Jiangli,

Thanks for taking a look.

On 10/2/18, 1:42 PM, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> Hi Calvin,
>
> With the change, would mach5 still be able to recolonize the test as 
> being skipped when testing doesn't perform due to mapping failure?
The test will still be run but it will be considered "passed" because of 
the SkippedException which is being thrown from CDSTestUtils.java.
The change is a standard practice on inspecting the checked exception 
from invoking a method reflectively.

thanks,
Calvin
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jiangli
>
>
> On 10/2/18 1:09 PM, Calvin Cheung wrote:
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211287
>>
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ccheung/8211287/webrev.00/
>>
>> The method to be invoked sometimes throws the SkippedException 
>> usually in case the archive cannot be mapped at the required address 
>> successfully. The fix is to catch the InvocationTargetException and 
>> inspecting its cause.  If the cause is SkippedException, consider the 
>> test has passed and output some message. Otherwise, rethrow the 
>> exception.
>>
>> Testing:
>>     hs-tier1,2,3
>>     Also ran the test 40 times on the windows host from which the 
>> failure was observed.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Calvin
>