RFR: 8352568: Test gtest/AsyncLogGtest.java failed at droppingMessage_vm

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:10:29 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> The test for dropping messages have started to fail on aarch64 fast debug on Linux only. It's currently unclear why this occurs. To figure out why, I've extended the test to do emit more diagnostic information if it fails.
>> 
>> 1. Fail if the asynchronous mode isn't "drop" (the test makes no sense with stalling mode)
>> 2. Print the entirety of the log file produced if no missing messages are found
>> 3. If the thread running the test is unattached, then async UL will emit log messages in synchronous mode. Therefore, if the thread is unattached, the test now fails with an error message.
>> 
>> With these changes integrated, I hope to be able to find the actual culprit of this bug.
>> 
>> I have attempted to reproduce this bug on both mainline and with this patch, but I have been unable to do so.
>
> @MBaesken , @dholmes-ora 
> 
> Would you mind reviewing this change, please? Thank you.

Hi @jdksjolen , I put your change into our build/test queue ; let's see what it does regarding the errors we saw on linuxaarch64.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24411#issuecomment-2775773071