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Shenandoah: explicit GC request should wait for a complete GC cycle

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        One of the tests that fails intermittently in Shenandoah testing is DirectBufferAllocTest. It allocates lots of DBBs and checks that JDK machinery is able to recover.

        $ ./build/linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug/images/jdk/bin/java -cp ./test/jdk/java/nio/Buffer/ -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseShenandoahGC -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=128m DirectBufferAllocTest
        <fails with OOME occasionally>

        The underlying code is calling System.gc() when native memory storage is depleted, which will block until GC is over. But, there is a wrinkle in Shenandoah control code: if that request comes too late, it can unblock when *current* GC cycle is over, which would not free enough memory. Then, OOME would fire.

              shade Aleksey Shipilev
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