Integrated: 8320532: Remove Thread/ThreadGroup suspend/resume

[Alan Bateman]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:18:44 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

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: af5c4922
Author:    Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/af5c49226c3416a9c3bdde06cac2076acf9de5c3
Stats:     553 lines in 9 files changed: 116 ins; 430 del; 7 mod

8320532: Remove Thread/ThreadGroup suspend/resume

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jpai, sspitsyn, smarks

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16789