Review Request JDK-8164512: Replace ClassLoader use of finalizer with phantom reference to unload native library
mandy chung
mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Sep 27 02:11:56 UTC 2017
On 9/26/17 7:06 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>
>> It is not tied with the Cleaner change. Instead, the FindClass bug
>> blocks the finalizer to Cleaner change.
>>
>> FindClass bug is uncovered when I implemented the change from
>> finalizer to Cleaner (or phantom reference). There is a test
>> calling FindClass to look for a class defined by the class loader
>> being unloaded, say L. L is not Gc'ed and so FindClass successfully
>> finds the class (which resurrect the class loader which was marked
>> finalizable).
>>
>> Is that clearer?
>
> So the issue is only that this test breaks??
No. The test reveals a bug in JNI_FindClass that uses a class loader
being finalized as the context when NativeLibrary is the caller.
> And you want to change the FindClass spec to make it clear the test is
> what needs to be changed?
No. It is a bug in the hotspot implementation. The JNI spec says
that the context of JNI_OnUnload being called is unknown. The hotspot
implementation of FindClass uses the class loader associated with that
native library as the context when invoked from JNI_OnUnload which is wrong.
I will file a separate JBS issue to separate this JNI bug.
Mandy
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