RFR: 8373917: test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/monitoring: -iterations setting misused in tests

[Kevin Walls]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:27:07 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Some tests in test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk tests are misusing the -iterations command-line option:  it is parsed only as "-iterations x" rather than "-iterations=x"
> 
> Fixing the RunParams parsing to recognise this saves updating multiple tests.
> 
> Other options are "option=value" so accepting -iterations=number is what we might expect (and is what tests are currently written to use).
> 
> The change makes logs look correct.  No more "Iterations: 0".
> 
> There are tests that currently log "Iterations: 0" but still do some work, so this is partly cosmetic, but also if you were thinking of making a test do some set limited number of iterations, you can now follow the example of other tests and have it work.

Thanks Leonid!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28876#issuecomment-3702420444