RFR (S) 8212178: Soft reference reclamation race in com.sun.xml.internal.stream.util.ThreadLocalBufferAllocator
Kim Barrett
kim.barrett at oracle.com
Mon Oct 15 17:50:21 UTC 2018
> On Oct 15, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Bug:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212178
>
> See the details in the bug. We are hitting this race when Shenandoah is running in aggressive mode
> and evacuates lots of objects all the time, processing references very often. This makes weak
> reference reclamation races very visible.
>
> Fix:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8212178/webrev.01/
>
> I took the liberty of rewriting the entire method to make it more straightforward. New code
> guarantees we never return "null" from this method.
>
> Testing: failing tests, jdk:tier1, jdk-submit (running)
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
Change looks good. Update copyright?
The class documentation here seems very confusing to me, like it’s not really about
this class at all. But that’s an entirely different problem.
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