On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:42:42 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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This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: af40ceb7
Author:    Joel Sikström <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/af40ceb743444b73fdb1b1b131be0614bc1ab46a
Stats:     12 lines in 1 file changed: 11 ins; 0 del; 1 mod

8382529: Tests com/sun/jdi/RedefineCrossEvent.java and 
com/sun/jdi/ClassesByName2Test.java fail when running frequent GC

Reviewed-by: aboldtch, syan, cjplummer

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/30825

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