RFR: 8254842: [JVMCI] copy thread name when attaching libgraal thread to HotSpot [v2]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:56:21 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR modifies `HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.attachCurrentThread` when it is called from within libgraal so that the name of
>> the thread in the libgraal heap is used as the name of the peer thread created in HotSpot.
>> This useful when viewing output such as `-XX:JVMCITraceLevel=1`. For example, here's sample output without this PR:
>> JVMCITrace-1[Thread-0]: initializing JVMCI runtime -1
>> JVMCITrace-1[Thread-0]: initialized JVMCI runtime -1
>> and then with:
>> JVMCITrace-1[LibGraalHotSpotGraalManagementInitialization]: initializing JVMCI runtime -1
>> JVMCITrace-1[LibGraalHotSpotGraalManagementInitialization]: initialized JVMCI runtime -1
>
> Doug Simon has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   add guarantee to clarify name argument must not be null

Good.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/684