RFC 7038914: VM could throw uncaught OOME in ReferenceHandler thread

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

  please review the latest webrev for this patch that is available at

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/7038914/webrev.2/

As mentioned, it incorporates the fix and reproducer from Peter Levart.

Bugs.sun.com:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7038914

JIRA:
https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-7038914

Testing:
JPRT, with the new reproducer passing

In need of reviewers and a sponsor for this patch; as mentioned earlier
I will set Peter (plevart) as author for this patch, i.e. send a
patchset to the sponsor for this change with that author set.

Thanks,
Thomas