On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:15:22 GMT, Joel Sikström <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> In the development of Automatic Heap Sizing (AHS) for ZGC we run into 
>> intermittent failures in the ClassesByName2Test.java test, and also 
>> RedefineCrossEvent.java which runs ClassesByName2Test.java.
>> 
>> In AHS we are running GCs more frequently, which affects how often classes 
>> are unloaded for example. In the tests mentioned above, we see that 
>> LambdaForm classes are unloaded before we call `vm().classesByName(name)`, 
>> which fails the test. 
>> 
>> LambdaForm classes are hidden, so they can be unloaded independently of 
>> their class loader. I suggest we make this test more robust by skipping 
>> verification of hidden classes, which include the LambdaForm classes we've 
>> observed so far. Checking for a slash `/` should be enough to determine if a 
>> class is hidden or not. A "valid"/"normal" Java class should not have a 
>> slash in their name, as specified by "normal" classes having a "binary 
>> name", which can't include a slash. See 
>> [https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/26/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Class.html#getName()](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/26/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Class.html#getName())
>>  for details on the class name returned by `getName()`.
>> 
>> Another way to get a similar failure to this in mainline is to run with the 
>> following JVM flags, which also runs frequent GCs:
>> 
>> -XX:+UseZGC -XX:+ZCollectionIntervalOnly -XX:ZCollectionIntervalMajor=0.001
>> 
>> 
>> I've also removed the commented-out print, which was very useful in 
>> debugging this.
>> 
>> Testing:
>> * We've not been able to see failures for this test after this fix.
>> * Oracle's tier1, tier2 and tier6 (where we've observed failures so far)
>> 
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>
> Joel Sikström has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - 4 space indentation isntead of 2 on other new block
>  - 4 space indentation instead of 2

Thank you for the reviews everyone!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/30825#issuecomment-4294531806

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