Request for review 8006537: Assert when dumping archive with default methods

Jon Masamitsu jon.masamitsu at oracle.com
Fri Jan 18 02:44:04 UTC 2013


New summary but same bug - 8006537

New fix from Coleen that is a fix and not a workaround.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8006537/webrev.00/

Sorry about wasting people's time with the previous
attempt.

Thanks.

Jon

On 01/17/13 16:00, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> JohnC,
>
> Thanks for you prompt review.
>
> All,
>
> These bugs have broken the hotspot build so I'm
> eager to get them back so will try pushing them
> soon.  Other comments are always welcome.
>
> Jon
>
> On 01/17/13 15:15, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>  8006537: Missing initialization of Metaspace variables with 
>> -Xshare:dump
>>
>> Always initialize _first_chunk_word_size and 
>> _first_class_chunk_word_size.
>> Prior to b73 these variables were not being used extensively (if at all)
>> when DumpSharedSpace was on.  With b73 they need to be used.
>>
>> When DumpSharedSpace was on previous to b73 there was not a second
>> call to the constructor for VirtualSpaceNode so the initialization 
>> done for
>> DumpSharedSpace was not called a second time and did not cause a 
>> problem.
>> With b73 and DumpSharedSpace it is called a second time so the 
>> initialization
>> for DumpSharedSpace had to be short circuited. This is a workaround. A
>> better fix would be to move the DumpSharedSpace initialization code 
>> to an
>> appropriate place.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8006537/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks.



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