On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:43:43 GMT, Patricio Chilano Mateo 
<pchilanom...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this small fix in async_get_stack_trace(). The GrowableArrays 
>> created to store the bci and Method* of each frame found while traversing 
>> the stack are allocated in the resource area of the thread that calls 
>> async_get_stack_trace(). But if the handshake is executed by the target and 
>> if the number of frames in the stack exceeds the initial size of the 
>> GrowableArrays then we will hit an assertion when trying to grow the size of 
>> the arrays (see bug description).
>> Currently we don't see any issues because the initial size of the 
>> GrowableArrays is 512 and our tests don't test beyond that (the maximum 
>> value of DEPTH in the vmTestbase/nsk/stress/strace/ tests is 500). The issue 
>> can be easily reproduced by either decreasing the initial size of the 
>> GrowableArrays or by increasing the value of DEPTH in those strace tests.
>> To fix it I allocated the arrays in the C heap instead. Also I lowered the 
>> initial size of the arrays since 512 seemed too much to start with.
>> Tested it by running all tests in the vmTestbase/nsk/stress/strace/ 
>> directory.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Patricio
>
> Patricio Chilano Mateo has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Improve comment

Thanks for the reviews David and Serguei!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10424

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