10 RFR: 8169517: WhiteBox should provide concurrent GC phase control

[Dmitry Fazunenko]

Kim,

new version looks good to me.
Thank you very much for addressing my concerns.

-- Dima


On 13.04.2017 0:27, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:00 PM, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 11, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Dmitry Fazunenko <dmitry.fazunenko at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kim,
>>>
>>> The tests you provided will work, but they are really hard to understand.
>>> To demonstrate what I meant suggesting improvement I converted them:
>>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfazunen/8169517/webrev.00/
>> This is pretty much what I was trying to avoid doing.
>>
>> While I still (mildly) prefer the approach I'd taken, I do see good
>> points to this.
>>
>> Since you seem to feel strongly enough about it to actually implement
>> the changes, I'm willing to go along.
>>
>> I should have a new webrev tonight or tomorrow.
> New webrev with refactored tests:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8169517/hotspot.03/
>
> Only the tests have changed since the previous webrev.  I didn’t provide
> an incremental webrev, since it didn’t seem like it would be all that useful.
>
> I didn't use Dmitry's exact changes, but took inspiration from there.
>
> There are now 3 utility classes in test/gc/concurrent_phase_control:
> - CheckSupported.java - basic tests for GC that supports phase control
> - CheckUnsupported.java - tests for a GC that doesn't support phase control
> - CheckControl.java - based on the old ConcurrentPhaseControlUtils.java
>    walks the GC through a sequence of phases and verifies that worked.
> Each has a static "check" function (with appropriate arguments).
>
> Each actual test uses one of those utility classes,
>