RFR: 8315566: [JVMCI] deadlock in JVMCI startup when bad option specified

Mon Sep 4 05:18:37 UTC 2023

On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 11:00:00 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR changes `HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.vmEventListeners` to be initialized in the `HotSpotJVMCIRuntime` constructor. This avoids a deadlock that can occur when this list is lazily initialized. Lazily initializing this list has no measurable performance benefit, especially in the context of libgraal.

Looks reasonable to me.

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Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15549#pullrequestreview-1608772165