RFR: 8273541: Cleaner Thread creates with normal priority instead of MAX_PRIORITY - 2

[Lance Andersen]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:37:23 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> …of MAX_PRIORITY-2 during refactoring
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>> Appears in Java 17 for the first time.
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>> During refactoring, the priority was changed from Thread.MAX_PRIORITY -  2 to instead state Thread.MIN_PRIORITY - 2, which results in a negative priority, and is thus set to Thread.NORM_PRIORITY. Thus the Cleaner by default now has threads with priority 5, instead of 8.
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>> The change was done in git revision # 992b50087d2ec8878dfcbbd1820a00b6b6bdf644 and label 8261036 by Claes Redestad
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> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/ref/CleanerImpl.java line 228:
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>> 226:             super(cleaner, cleaner);
>> 227:         }
>> 228: java
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> Stray change.

Not sure what the "java" is for here seems like a typo

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5439