RFR 8151486 : Class.forName causes memory leak

[Brent Christian]

On 10/5/16 4:43 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>
>>> Okay but this will still affect the lifecycle of the PDs because
>>> without the strong reference in L, those weak references in the VM
>>> will quickly be cleared.

There's also a strong reference held by the Class object itself (on the 
VM side [1]).

Thanks for having a look, folks.  I've applied Naoto and Mandy's 
suggestions for the test case and updated the webrev in place with what 
I plan to push.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8151486/webrev.00/

-Brent

1. 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/hotspot/file/fec31089c2ef/src/share/vm/classfile/javaClasses.cpp#l917