RFR: 8196521: serviceability/sa/ClhsdbWhere.java fails to find method 'waitForReferencePendingList' in output

[David Holmes]

On 1/02/2018 5:01 PM, Jini George wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Your fix looks good to me. You probably could instead add 'remove()' or 
> 'run()' to the list, but I leave it upto you.

These tests should only be looking for things that are guaranteed to be 
seen. If waitForReferencePendingList is not there, how do we know that 
processPendingReferences will be there? We seem to be assuming a 
quiescent system. We know the threads that will be present, but the only 
stack entries we should be looking for are those controlled by the test 
code itself.

David
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> Thanks,
> Jini (Not a (R)eviewer).
> 
> On 2/1/2018 2:39 AM, stewartd.qdt wrote:
>> Please review this webrev [1] which attempts to fix a test error in 
>> serviceability/sa/ClhsdbWhere.java when it is run under an AArch64 
>> system (not necessarily exclusive to this system, but it was the 
>> system under test). The bug report [2] provides further details and 
>> has the jtr report that was generated. Essentially the line 
>> “waitForReferencePendingList” never actually occurs. The test is 
>> written such that it is expecting that line.
>>
>> This patch simply removes the line from the set of tested lines it 
>> expects.  I’m not overly happy with this approach as it actually 
>> removes a test line. However, the test line does not actually appear 
>> in the output (at least on my system) and I’m not sure if there is 
>> actually another way of testing for the intent of this line or if it 
>> doesn’t actually have to appear in the output, depending on the 
>> system. Perhaps the original author could chime in and provide further 
>> guidance as to the intention of the test.
>>
>> I am happy to modify the patch as necessary.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel Stewart
>>
>> [1] - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dstewart/8196521/webrev.00/
>>
>> [2] - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196521
>>