RFR: JDK-8263884: Clean up os::is_allocatable() across Posix platforms

[Marcus G K Williams]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:20:32 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> There exists a function `os::is_allocatable()` which is really only used on 32bit platforms if AggressiveHeap is set. That function tests if a given memory size can be mapped. A variant of this function exists for every os_cpu variant. They don't really differ much. Some of the 64bit only variants (eg ppc) never bothered to implement this.
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> I am not sure how much worth this function has, but it could at least be unified across POSIX platforms, and it should not use os::reserve_memory but plain raw mmap. There is no need for it to go through our whole reservation layer (eg NMT) if it just immediately releases the memory again.
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> I also would like NMT to be kept out of this since I work on NMT late stage initialization (JDK-8256844) and would like to avoid calling any of our reservation APIs before NMT initialization ran.

Seems reasonable to me.

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Marked as reviewed by mgkwill at github.com (no known OpenJDK username).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3092