Hi Tim
Are we seeing new failures in these tests?
I am asking this question because once upon a time (4 years ago) I was involved
in several RFEs [1][2][3] to do some similar the same cleanup. Some tests were
put into othervm mode, but for most others, we tried our best to make them
runnable in samevm/agentvm mode for performance benefits. For example, in
test/java/security/Provider/RemoveProvider.java, the main method has
39 ProvidersSnapshot snapshot = ProvidersSnapshot.create();
40 try {
41 main0(args);
42 } finally {
43 snapshot.restore();
44 }
The ProvidersSnapshot class is meant to be able to restore the provider list
after the test completes, and thus not necessary to run in othervm.
Also, I think there is no need to care about multiple tests running at the same
time, because both samevm and agentvm modes make sure each VM is used in batch
mode so no two tests can run simultaneously in the same VM. The agentvm mode
does support concurrency but it's about multiple VMs running in parallel and
each one will only serve one test at one time.
Thanks
Max
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7054918
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7055362
[3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7055363
[4]
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tidu/7052815/webrev.00/test/java/security/Provider/RemoveProvider.java.html
> On Jul 8, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Tim Du <tiantian...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Updated copyright , new webrev here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tidu/7052815/webrev.02/
> Please help to review them ,Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Tim
