[8u-dev] Request for approval: backport of JDK-8059661: Test SoftReference and OOM behavior

Seán Coffey sean.coffey at oracle.com
Wed Feb 10 18:14:01 UTC 2016


Alexander,

On 10/02/16 16:48, Alexander Vorobyev wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like approval for a JDK 8 backport of JDK-8059661 
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059661)
>
> The changeset from JDK 9 applies cleanly.
> But it was slightly changed:
So it doesn't apply cleanly then. Can you post your webrev ?

Also - are you committing fixes from below bug IDs also? Will you list 
them in the changeset and approval request ?

regards,
Sean.
> it uses standard java.util.Random() instead of 
> Utils.getRandomInstance(), because JDK-8044186 
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044186) is not backported 
> to JDK 8 yet.
> Also, it contains one-line fix for JDK-8065865 
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065865). Fix for 
> JDK-8059661 could not be compiled without it.
>
> JDK 9 Changeset:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/18f7ade7de0d
> JDK 9 review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2014-October/010977.html 
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
>
>



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