review request 7140866: assert(covered) failed: Card for end of new region not committed

Dean Long dean.long at oracle.com
Tue Feb 14 21:02:52 PST 2012


Thanks Ramki.

dl

On 2/14/2012 4:30 PM, Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote:
> Looks good to me.
>
> -- ramki (openjdk: ysr)
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Dean Long <dean.long at oracle.com 
> <mailto:dean.long at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7140866
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlong/7140866/webrev.00/
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edlong/7140866/webrev.00/>
>
>     The problem happens when trying to use a shared archive.  If for
>     some reason mapping the shared file fails,
>     we call
>
>        _rs->resize_covered_region(MemRegion(shared_bottom,
>     shared_bottom));
>
>     to undo the earlier call to
>
>        _rs->resize_covered_region(MemRegion(readonly_bottom,
>     readwrite_end));
>
>     Unfortunately the resize code is not prepared to deal with a
>     zero-sized region so an assert fails.
>     Rather than touch the resize code, this fix changes the caller to
>     only call resize_covered_region()
>     once after the shared file is mapped.
>
>     Tested fix on a particular linux arm platform where the mmap fails
>     100% of the time due to a different issue.
>     Ran -Xshare:dump first then a few GC tests.
>
>     dl
>
>
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