[8u] Request for Approval for backport of 8180048: Interned string and symbol table leak memory during parallel unlinking

[Rob McKenna]

If the patch requires changes it will need a separate review on 8.

    -Rob

On 18/05/17 07:35, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   could you please approve the backport of JDK-8180048 to 8u-dev?
> 
> This fixes a serious memory leak in G1.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180048
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8180048-8u/webrev/
> Review thread (8u): http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-d
> ev/2017-May/019872.html
> Original webrev (9): http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8180048/webre
> v.2/
> Review thread (9): http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-de
> v/2017-May/019855.html
> 
> Patch from 9 does not apply cleanly because of cleanup done in the
> meantime (split of symbolTable.?pp into symbolTable/stringTable.?pp,
> and removal of some code in 9).
> 
> Thanks,
>   Thomas
>