Suspected regression: fix for 6735255 causes delay in GC of ZipFile InputStreams, increase in heap demand

[Xueming Shen]

  On 4/1/2011 11:56 PM, Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> Xueming Shen wrote:
>> I'm not a GC guy, so I might be missing something here, but if close()
>> is being explicitly invoked by some thread, means someone has a strong
>> reference to it, I don't think the finalize() can kick in until that
>> close() returns
> This is not correct. You can re-publish the reference from another finalizer method and thereby allow another thread to access the object concurrently with the finalizer.
>
> Here's a possible sequence of events:
> 1) GC runs and determines that A and B are finalizable
> 2) Finalizer thread run A.finalize()
> 3) A.finalize publishes reference to B in static variable

Jeroen, are you talking about the object resurrection from finalize()?

How do you re-publish/get the reference to B inside A.finalize()? I 
think you can do that inside
B's finalize() to assign "this" to a global static variable.

Regard,
-Sherman

> 4a) Another thread reads the static variable and calls B.close()
> 4b) Finalizer thread runs B.finalize()
>
> Regards,
> Jeroen
>