RFR: JDK-8322943: runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java fails on AIX [v2]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:45:05 GMT, Joachim Kern <jkern at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Even after recent fixes like
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8305765
>> the test runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java fails on AIX.
>> 
>> This error results from the fact, that on AIX the shmat() allocation granularity is 256MB instead of the standard Pagesize (4KB or 64KB).
>> 
>> As a solution we introduce a new method  `os::vm_shm_allocation_granularity()`, which on all platforms except AIX returns the same value as  `os::vm_allocation_granularity()`, but on AIX it returns (in the apropriate cases) 256MB.
>> 
>> This new getter is used at all needed places instead of  `os::vm_allocation_granularity()`.
>
> Joachim Kern has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   following Goetz objections

At a first glance, this seems like a really big hammer for a really small and exotic nail.

Can you explain what the new value "shm_allocation_granularity" is supposed to describe? And how it differs from vm_allocation_granularity?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17708#issuecomment-1944231002