RFR (S) 8059677: Thread.getName() instantiates Strings

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Thanks Staffan, your change is exactly what I (blindly) did in my
updated webrev. I will get David's comments in, respin some tests and
publish the update.

-Aleksey.

On 11.11.2014 11:03, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> I was able to provoke the failure with a “jstack -F”. I think this patch
> solves the
> problem: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8059677-thread.name.sa.patch
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esla/8059677-thread.name.sa.patch>. Feel
> free to not include the changes in StackTrace.java if you don’t want to
> complicate your review.
> 
> Thanks,
> /Staffan
> 
> 
>> On 10 nov 2014, at 19:09, Aleksey Shipilev
>> <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com <mailto:aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10.11.2014 19:39, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>>>> On 10 nov 2014, at 15:55, Aleksey Shipilev
>>>> <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com <mailto:aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Ow, it seems very like it.
>>>> So, what testlist have I missed to catch this?
>>>
>>> Probably vm.tmtools.testlist and/or nsk.sajdi.testlist. Just a
>>> warning that these tests are far from stable. Sorry about that.
>>
>> Alas, both these testlists pass with current change without a hitch.
>> That probably tells something about the test coverage. Any other ideas
>> how to test for it? Maybe some manual way?
>>
>> Anyhow, there is a synonymous block in ThreadGroup handling, I can copy
>> the relevant bits from there. Updated webrev follows soon. Still need to
>> test if that change is safe.
>>
>> -Aleksey.
>>
>