Integrated: 8280553: resourcehogs/serviceability/sa/TestHeapDumpForLargeArray.java can fail if GC occurs

[Chris Plummer]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:03:21 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This test is failing in the loom repo when using -Xcomp. The reason is because loom introduced doing a full GC in the codecache sweeper, which causes the large array that the test allocates to be GC'd before the heap dump is done. The fix is to make the large array static rather than a local variable.
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> I'm choosing to fix this in the jdk repo rather than the loom repo since it is a latent bug that theoretically could occur even without the loom changes, and also to help reduce the amount of changes to be reviewed when loom is integrated into jdk.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: be9f984c
Author:    Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/be9f984caec32c3fe1deef30efe40fa115409ca0
Stats:     4 lines in 1 file changed: 3 ins; 0 del; 1 mod

8280553: resourcehogs/serviceability/sa/TestHeapDumpForLargeArray.java can fail if GC occurs

Reviewed-by: alanb, amenkov

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7236