I have verified that the program that failed before doesn't appear to fail anymore.
The patch looks good to me. Thanks! Roman > Bug: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212178 > > See the details in the bug. We are hitting this race when Shenandoah is > running in aggressive mode > and evacuates lots of objects all the time, processing references very often. > This makes weak > reference reclamation races very visible. > > Fix: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8212178/webrev.01/ > > I took the liberty of rewriting the entire method to make it more > straightforward. New code > guarantees we never return "null" from this method. > > Testing: failing tests, jdk:tier1, jdk-submit (running) > > Thanks, > -Aleksey >
