Heap inspection not working for OpenJDK 8 + Shenandoah

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 11/27/18 12:27 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 11/27/18 1:03 AM, Roman Leventov wrote:
>> Hi Shenandoah developers,
>>
>> Is that expected that heap inspection (jmap -histo:live, inspectheap
>> operation) doesn't work when I use Shenandoah backport for OpenJDK 8? The
>> command returns immediately with response code 0, not dumping any heap
>> stats. When I use a different GC algorithm with the same OpenJDK build, the
>> heap stats are produced normally.
> 
> Reproduced on latest sh/jdk8, let me see what's up.

That was the 8u-specific bug. Fixed with:
  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/shenandoah-dev/2018-November/008403.html

Builds are regenerating here:
  https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-shenandoah-jdk8/

-Aleksey