RFR: JDK-8151912: guarantee(GCPauseIntervalMillis >= 1) failed: Constraint for GCPauseIntervalMillis should guarantee that value is >= 1 (original) (raw)

Bengt Rutisson bengt.rutisson at oracle.com
Wed Mar 16 14:07:47 UTC 2016

Hi all,

Could I have a couple of reviews for this change?

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8151912/webrev.00/ https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151912

The problem is that we do this during setup of G1CollectorPolicy:

 FLAG_SET_DEFAULT(GCPauseIntervalMillis, MaxGCPauseMillis + 1);

If MaxGCPauseMillis is max uint we will overflow and GCPauseIntervalMillis will be 0.

Before JDK-8151604 we did not notice this overflow.

The proposed change reduces the max value for MaxGCPauseMillis to max_uint - 1. I think it can be argued that we should have a more reasonable max value, but I don't have a good suggestion for what that value would be. So, for now, to fix the current failures in nightly testing, I propose to just reduce it to the largest value that we can actually handle.

I am changing the default value too to match this. As a separate change it would probably be good to change the default to 200 ms. But since ParallelGC uses the same flag in a different way it is not a straight forward fix to do.

Thanks, Bengt

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