RFR: "Allocation failure" cause should not be overwritten

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Wed May 24 08:33:44 UTC 2017


http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/fullgc-alloc-overwrite/webrev.02/

This matters because allocation failure may coincide with System.gc() call, that
can be disabled with -XX:+DisableExplicitGC. Which makes our full GC ignored,
even if we have to do it due to allocation failure.

-Aleksey



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