RFR: 8258015: [JVMCI] JVMCI_lock shouldn't be held while initializing box classes [v2]

Thu Dec 10 15:23:43 UTC 2020

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:03:48 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR fixes a regression caused by JDK-8257917 by not locking JVMCI_lock when initializing the boxing cache classes.
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>> It also reduces the calls to `JVMCI::ensure_box_caches_initialized` to be at most one per JVMCI code installation.
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> Doug Simon has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   do not synchronize ensure_box_caches_initialized

Marked as reviewed by iveresov (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1730