what does "LEAF method calling lock?" mean?

[Tom Rodriguez]

No you can't ignore it.  You have to use IRT_ENTRY/JRT_ENTRY instead  
of IRT_ENTRY/JRT_LEAF so that the state is setup correctly for a  
safepoint.  Look at all the other places were we call out to allocate  
an object and copy that.

tom

On Mar 31, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Colin(Du Li) wrote:

>
> Thanks.
> Now, I just wanna allocate an object, and the thread state is
> "thread_in_Java", then I got this error.
> How can address this problem? Can i just ignore it?
>
> Du Li
>
>
> Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> JRT_LEAF methods aren't allowed to acquire locks since they might  
>> have
>> to block.  Leaf methods aren't allowed to block because they aren't
>> set up to safepoint so they could deadlock the whole system.
>>
>> tom
>>
>> On Mar 14, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Colin(Du Li) wrote:
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