[ON HOLD] Re: RFR: 8158946 - btree009 fails with assert(s > 0) failed: Bad size calculated

Derek White derek.white at oracle.com
Tue Jun 21 20:24:31 UTC 2016


Kim and I just sketched out a more principled solution to this problem. 
I'll see if it works out and get a new webrev in a bit.

Thanks for pushing on this Kim, and not vomiting too much :-)

  - Derek

On 6/21/16 2:46 PM, Derek White wrote:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158946
>
> This bug is a race between an assertion in the CMS sweeper and a Java 
> thread loading a class. See the bug report for full description of the 
> race.
>
> The fix is to bypass the assertion in CMS for this case, and add extra 
> assertions to catch similar data races in the future.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~drwhite/8158946/webrev.01
>
> Tests: jprt
>
> - Derek
>




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