RFR (S): 8223736: jvmti/scenarios/contention/TC04/tc04t001/TestDescription.java fails due to wrong number of MonitorContendedEntered events

[Chris Plummer]

Looks good.

Chris

On 6/20/19 2:56 PM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
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> On 6/19/19 18:59, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
>> Sorry, forgot the  bug title to add to the email subject.
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>> Thanks,
>> Serguei
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>> On 6/19/19 6:09 PM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Please review a fix for test bug:
>>>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223736
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sspitsyn/webrevs/2019/8223736-mon-events-test.1/ 
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>>> Summary:
>>>  It seems that waiting for 0.5 sec for a MonitorContendedEnter event 
>>> in the
>>>  increment() method sometime is not enough (especially when the JFR 
>>> is enabled).
>>>  The fix implement an approach to ensure the event has posted before 
>>> the worker
>>>  thread goes to the next iteration.
>>>  Also, another check is added to diagnose if any of two worker threads
>>>  (tc04t001Thread) has been interrupted by timeout.
>>>  In fact, we have many other tests which miss this kind of check and 
>>> diagnostics.
>>>  We may want to consider fixing other cases if we encounter this 
>>> eventually happens.
>>>
>>> Testing:
>>>  A mach5 test submission is in progress.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Serguei
>>>
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