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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test LimitSharedSizes
+ * @summary Test handling of limits on shared space size 
+ * @library /testlibrary
+ * @run main LimitSharedSizes
+ */
+
+import com.oracle.java.testlibrary.*;
+
+public class LimitSharedSizes {
+    private static class SharedSizeTestData {
+        public String optionName;
+        public String optionValue;
+        public String expectedErrorMsg;
+        
+        public SharedSizeTestData(String name, String value, String msg) {
+            optionName = name;
+            optionValue = value;
+            expectedErrorMsg = msg;
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private static final SharedSizeTestData[] testTable = {
+        // values in this part of the test table should cause failure 
+        // (shared space sizes are deliberately too small) 
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedReadOnlySize", "4M",      "read only"),
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedReadWriteSize","4M",      "read write"),
+
+        // Known issue, JDK-8038422 (assert() on Windows)
+        // new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedMiscDataSize", "500k",    "miscellaneous data"),
+        
+        // This will cause a VM crash; commenting out for now; see bug JDK-8038268
+        // @ignore JDK-8038268
+        // new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedMiscCodeSize", "20k",     "miscellaneous code"),
+
+        // these values are larger than default ones, but should
+        // be acceptable and not cause failure
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedReadOnlySize",    "20M", null),
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedReadWriteSize",   "20M", null),
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedMiscDataSize",    "20M", null),
+        new SharedSizeTestData("-XX:SharedMiscCodeSize",    "20M", null)
+    }; 
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        String fileName = "test.jsa";
+        
+        for (SharedSizeTestData td : testTable) {
+            String option = td.optionName + "=" + td.optionValue;
+            System.out.println("testing option <" + option + ">");
+
+            ProcessBuilder pb = ProcessTools.createJavaProcessBuilder(
+               "-XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions", 
+               "-XX:SharedArchiveFile=./" + fileName,
+               option, 
+               "-Xshare:dump");
+     
+            OutputAnalyzer output = new OutputAnalyzer(pb.start());
+            
+            if (td.expectedErrorMsg != null) {
+                output.shouldContain("The shared " + td.expectedErrorMsg 
+                    + " space is not large enough");
+            
+                output.shouldHaveExitValue(2);
+            } else {
+                output.shouldNotContain("space is not large enough");
+                output.shouldHaveExitValue(0);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}