Integrated: JDK-8283670: gtest os.release_multi_mappings_vm is still racy

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 06:01:19 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> [JDK-8280940](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8280940) fixed up os.release_multi_mappings_vm to make its handling of multiple neighboring reservations less racy, but I forgot to fix up the reserve_multiple() function, which follows the same pattern and is still racy. It reserves an area, releases it, then re-reserves stripes in that area.
> 
> We see intermittent problems on Linux PPC. This makes sense because we have here 64k pages, and therefore the stripe size is large, and we have a higher chance of someone grabbing that address space concurrently between the release and the stripe-wise re-reserve.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2e9fd565
Author:    Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/2e9fd56524f739dc4023b81061cb2587d6325fac
Stats:     42 lines in 1 file changed: 18 ins; 8 del; 16 mod

8283670: gtest os.release_multi_mappings_vm is still racy

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, dholmes

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7953