Patch for JDK-8273541

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/09/2021 13:36, Kartik Ohri wrote:
> Hi all!
> I would like to work on a fix for JDK-8273541
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8273541>. I think the regression
> was introduced by the change here
> <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2380/files#diff-d62f4055445b40f5d9862e02f8be6da2d547ac77ffae362d7034595d58c7389aL220-R217>.
> It seems that this was accidentally changed from Thread.MAX_PRIORITY to
> Thread.MIN_PRIORITY.  As Thread.MIN_PRIORITY - 2 is negative and because of
> the check here
> <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2380/files#diff-9f140a5980d51de2a5f392a6ffb91f51d2303760b699d5366125fb66f55b70f0R120-R122>,
> the thread priority is not set. Changing this back to
> Thread.MAX_PRIORITY should fix the problem. I tried the patch
> <https://github.com/amCap1712/jdk/commit/b894bda67f9f4f8f48ba97679247a8218f6b95dc>
> locally and it seems to fix the issue for me. If it is fine, I would like
> to submit this fix.
>
Heinz Kabutz is working on a PR here:
    https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/5439

-Alan