[8u] RFR 8212070: Introduce diagnostic flag to abort VM on failed JIT compilation

[Andrew Hughes]

On 13:58 Wed 14 Oct     , Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Original RFE:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212070
>   https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/b8c88c64abf0
> 
> This is surprisingly useful to follow-up on performance/functional failures.
> It was already backported to 11u. Let's have it in 8u as well. The patch
> does not apply cleanly to 8u, but that's for the better, because the patch
> for 8u is much more straight-forward:
>   https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8212070/webrev.8u.01/
> 
> Testing: tier1 with/without the new flag; some interesting failures with the new flag!
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
> 

Nice that the lack of JDK-8136421's refactoring actually makes this
easier. I presume the same was the case for backporting JFR
(JDK-8199712)

Approved for 8u.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
OpenJDK Package Owner
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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