RFR: 8253916: ResourceExhausted/resexhausted001 crashes on Linux-x64 [v2]

[Serguei Spitsyn]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:16:14 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Give an error message rather than logging the error and then crashing later because the JVM can't detect stack overflow.  In a resource exhausted situation, thread creation is also failing.  This is the vm_exit_out_of_memory message printed:
>> 
>> `$ java -XX:+UseNewCode -version
>> [0.003s][warning][os,thread] Attempt to protect stack guard pages failed (0x00007f606b249000-0x00007f606b24d000).
>> 
>>  There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
>>  Native memory allocation (mprotect) failed to protect 16384 bytes for memory to guard stack pages
>>  An error report file with more information is saved as:
>>  /16mprotect/hs_err_pid30596.log`
>> `
>
> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into mprotect
>  - Made resexhaused001.004 manual tests.  You can't reliably run these tests.
>  - 8253916: ResourceExhausted/resexhausted001 crashes on Linux-x64

Hi Coleen,
The fix looks good to me.
I'm not sure how adding the jtreg 'manual' key to the tests is helping though. 
Thanks,
Serguei

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Marked as reviewed by sspitsyn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1540