RFR: 8342659: Test vmTestbase/nsk/jdi/ObjectReference/referringObjects/referringObjects002/referringObjects002.java failed: Class nsk.share.jdi.TestClass1 was not unloaded [v2]

[Chris Plummer]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:05:58 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Use `Reference.refersTo` API to get more up to date liveness info of a class after OOM is thrown. The approach of relying `Cleaner` thread can incur some "asynchronous" cause various retrying logic, complicating the flow.
>> 
>> The failure rate is ~60% before the fix and no failure for 2000 runs.
>> 
>> Test: tier1-5
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> Albert Mingkun Yang 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 four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into test-unload
>  - copyright
>  - review
>  - test-unload

The changes look good. Copyrights need updating.

Thanks for providing the fix for this!

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Marked as reviewed by cjplummer (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27840#pullrequestreview-3346819019