> This is test unstable when monitoring CodeHeap pools as they can change 
> outside the test's control.
> Attempting more heuristics to sense these unrelated changes just means we 
> skip more pools.
> 
> The test design, making a Java allocation to affect a memory pool, shows it 
> was intended for Java heap pools, so the test should focus on them.  If we 
> make a larger allocation during the test we actually can observe a change in 
> size in the old gen pools it monitors (new gen pools are not expected to have 
> thresholds, so they are skipped).
> 
> There exist specific tests in test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/codecache/jmx which 
> are intended for non-heap pools, so we should skip them intentionally here in 
> isUsageThresholdExceeded.
> 
> Other edits in the test to fix that the peak usage reported by the test was 
> simply usage, not peak.  Fetch the usage and peak usage as near together as 
> possible in the test.  At line 110 in the test, remove an attempt to skip 
> pools we can't monitor (which was working, but does not cover all cases).
> 
> 
> Example test log, showing allocation that hits the old gen and triggers the 
> threshold set by the test:
> 
> ----------System.out:(15/796)----------
> ...
> 5 pool G1 Old Gen of type: Heap memory
>      used value is 1024000      max is 1038090240 isExceeded = false
> peak used value is 1024000
>   threshold set to 1024001
>   threshold count  0
>   reset peak usage. peak usage = 1024000 isExceeded = false
>   Allocated heap.  isExceeded = true
>      used value is 106930176      max is 1038090240 isExceeded = true
> peak used value is 106930176 peak max is 1038090240
>   threshold count  1

Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Remove fetching and logging of peak max usage.

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9842/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9842/files/2583e89f..07a05ea0

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=9842&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=9842&range=00-01

  Stats: 3 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9842.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/9842/head:pull/9842

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9842

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