RFR: 8339686: java/foreign/TestMappedHandshake.java fails with assert(depth < max_critical_stack_depth) failed: can't have more than 10 critical frames

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 12:57:17 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The new test added by https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/20854 fails spuriously.
> While JNI lookup is now moved into the static initializer of the `MappedMemoryUtils` class, this class might only get initialized while in the middle of a scoped context.
> 
> To address this, I created a new proxy interface, namely `MappedMemoryUtilsProxy`. This interface is used by `ScopedMemoryAccess` to call the various `force`/`load`/`isLoaded`/`unload` methods, and a singleton instance is provided inside `MappedMemoryUtils` itself, and then exposed via the `SharedSecrets` mechanism.
> 
> Crucially, `MappedMemorySegmentImpl` will now _first_ obtain a `MappedMemoryUtilsProxy` and _then_ call `ScopedMemoryAccess`. This should move all class initializer side-effects out of the scoped method context.

Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20914#pullrequestreview-2289932524