PING: 6908267: Zero fails to unlock synchronized native methods on exception

Tom Rodriguez Thomas.Rodriguez at Sun.COM
Tue Jan 5 11:32:46 PST 2010


It's in the queue.

tom

On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Gary Benson wrote:

> Yes please :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> Tom Rodriguez wrote:
>> Yes this looks fine.  Would you like me to push it?
>> 
>> tom
>> 
>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> If a synchronized native method throws an exception, Zero does
>>> not unlock it.  This leaves the receiver (or mirror) "locked"
>>> to a "monitor" which is basically junk on the stack, and the
>>> VM will crash at the next safepoint if not before.
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-fix-6908267/ fixes
>>> this issue.  It's been hanging around for a month or so now.
>>> Could somebody please look at it for me?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> http://gbenson.net/



More information about the hotspot-dev mailing list