RFR: 8320532: Remove Thread/ThreadGroup suspend/resume [v2]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 06:39:59 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The deadlock prone Thread/ThreadGroup suspend/resume were deprecated since JDK 1.2, deprecated for removal in Java 14, and re-specified/degraded to throw UnsupportedOperationException unconditionally in Java 19/20.  Early in Java 23 seems a fine time to finally remove these methods.
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>> Corpus analysis of 176 million classes in 485k artifacts found no remaining usages of ThreadGroup.suspend/resume beyond the artifacts that include a copy of java.lang.ThreadGroup (!). It found 87 remaining uses of Thread.suspend and 86 remaining usages of Thread.resume, some of these are tests.
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>> Thread.suspend/resume have always linked to the "Java Thread Primitive Deprecation" page. This originally explained the reasons why suspend/resume were deprecated. When these methods were degraded to throw UOE we changed the text to explain why the ability to suspend or resume a thread was removed. Now we must change it again. One choice is to re-word to explain why the Java APIs were removed or why the Java APIs don't define a way to suspend/resume threads, the other choice (which I prefer) is to remove the text.
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>> The method description of java.lang.management.ThreadInfo.isSuspended is tweaked to link to JVMTI SuspendThread instead of Thread.suspend
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> Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Update copyright year
>  - Merge
>  - Clarify ThreadInfo.isSuspended
>  - Initial commit

Marked as reviewed by jpai (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16789#pullrequestreview-1771631210