RFR: 8197812: (ref) Data race in Finalizer

[mandy chung]

On 2/15/18 7:13 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:20 PM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com 
> <mailto:mandy.chung at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     I have posted RFR to remove runFinalizersOnExit.   I think your
>     patch would become cleaner as you may keep the remove method or
>     inline in runFinalizer method as your original patch has.
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>     Do you want to wait until JDK-8198249?  or proceed this patch
>     without waiting?
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> I'd like to commit this patch now, in part because we're actually 
> backporting this as a local patch to make race detection easier.
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> Regarding remove(), I think it's actually cleaner inline, but if it's 
> kept a separate method, then make it return a boolean, as with 
> Collection remove methods.
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http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/jdk/Finalizer-data-race/

I reviewed this version.  It looks okay.

With the removal of runFinalizersOnExit, I will inline the 
deregistration part as part of runFinalizers after I rebase with your 
change.  Hope that's okay with you.

Mandy