RFR: 8353718: Improve droppingMessage test in async UL tests

[Johan Sjölen]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 06:43:28 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes 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.
>
> From a failure linking perspective it may be better to create a sub-task of the bug and use that for these enhancements.
> 
> EDIT just saw Leonid requested the same.
> 
> Thanks

This PR now resolves a new ticket which relates-to the original bug. @dholmes-ora , is the subtask way of doing this preferred?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24411#issuecomment-2778287514