[8u] RFR 8212070: Introduce diagnostic flag to abort VM on failed JIT compilation

[Thomas Stüfe]

LGTM. Not sure if I count as 8u reviewer though.

Cheers, Thomas

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:58 PM Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:

> Original RFE:
>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212070
>    https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/b8c88c64abf0
>
> This is surprisingly useful to follow-up on performance/functional
> failures. It was already
> backported to 11u. Let's have it in 8u as well. The patch does not apply
> cleanly to 8u, but that's
> for the better, because the patch for 8u is much more straight-forward:
>    https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8212070/webrev.8u.01/
>
> Testing: tier1 with/without the new flag; some interesting failures with
> the new flag!
>
> --
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
>