8226863: [aix] jdk/java/lang/reflect/exeCallerAccessTest cannot launch on primordial thread

[Mandy Chung]

On 7/2/19 10:30 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 00:20 Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com 
> <mailto:mandy.chung at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Thomas,
>
>     This is AIX-only.    It would be cleaner to move AIX-specific
>     launcher
>     to a new file like main_aix.c.  Have you considered that?
>
>
> I rather not since this would unnecessarily increase complexity even 
> further.
>
> However, if you really dislike the platform specific code, I would 
> withdraw the patch and just disable the test on AIX. I was on the 
> fence about that anyway.
>

+1 disabling this test on AIX until the underlying issue is addressed.

Mandy

> Cheers, Thomas
>
>
>     I don't know how to specify additional .c file in
>     make/test/JtregNativeJdk.gmk  though.
>
>     Mandy
>
>
>
>     On 7/1/19 10:23 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>     > Second, corrected Webrev:
>     >
>     >
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/execalleraccesstest-cannot-launch-on-primordial-thread/webrev.01/webrev/
>     >
>     > Run through SAP nightlies on all platforms.
>     >
>     > Cheers, Thomas
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:02 AM Thomas Stüfe
>     <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com <mailto:thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> Issue:
>     >> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8226863
>     >> webrev:
>     >>
>     >>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8226863--jdk-java-lang-reflect-execalleraccesstest-cannot-launch-on-primordial-thread/webrev.00/webrev/
>     >>
>     >> we have this annoying issue on AIX that the libjvm cannot be
>     invoked on a
>     >> primordial thread. Therefore we need to change launchers which
>     create the
>     >> VM to spawn own threads (we only do this where it is worth the
>     effort -
>     >> this, admittedly, is a corner case, we could alternatively just
>     disable the
>     >> test on AIX).
>     >>
>     >> This is annoying and vaguely embarrassing :-/ Maybe IBM will
>     step in some
>     >> time and help us solve the underlying issues which have to do
>     with the
>     >> inability to create guard pages on the primordial thread stack
>     (among other
>     >> things IIRC).
>     >>
>     >> Thanks for reviewing,
>     >>
>     >> Thomas
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>

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