Code Review fix for 6799919 Recursive calls to report_vm_out_of_memory are handled incorrectly

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

For the record, "thumbs up".

 > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dcubed/for_rdurbin/6799919-webrev/0-hsx25

src/share/vm/utilities/debug.cpp
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Dan

On 2/19/13 4:48 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm sponsoring this code review request from Ron Durbin. This change
> is targeted at JDK8/HSX-25 in the RT_Baseline repo.
>
> Dan
>
>
> I have a proposed fix for the following bug:
>
>     6799919 Recursive calls to report_vm_out_of_memory are handled 
> incorrectly
>     http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6799919
>     https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-6799919
>
> This is one of those bug fixes where the commit message nicely describes
> the change:
>
> 6799919: Recursive calls to report_vm_out_of_memory are handled 
> incorrectly
> Summary: report_vm_out_of_memory() should allow 
> VMError.report_and_die() to handle multiple out of native memory errors.
> Reviewed-by: dcubed, <other-reviewers>
> Contributed-by ron.durbin at oracle.com
>
> Here is the webrev URL:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dcubed/for_rdurbin/6799919-webrev/0-hsx25
>
> Testing:
>    - See the READ_ME file attached to the JDK-6799919 for the gory 
> details
>      of the testing needed to reproduce this failure and verify the fix
>    - regular JPRT test job is in process
>
> Comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Ron