review for 7150390: JFR test crashed on assert(_jni_lock_count == count) failed: must be equal

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Tue Mar 6 12:16:21 PST 2012


This looks good.
Thanks,
Coleen

On 3/6/2012 1:17 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~never/7150390
> 33 lines changed: 28 ins; 4 del; 1 mod; 7748 unchg
>
> 7150390: JFR test crashed on assert(_jni_lock_count == count) failed: must be equal
> Reviewed-by:
>
> Threads which have been suspended weren't being visited by the logic
> for maintaining the shared JNI critical count, resuling in incorrect
> values.  It's a very rare problem that could only occur as a result of
> JVMTI suspending a thread in the middle of a JNI critical operation
> which should in general be rare.  It showed up in the nightlies with
> regularity but I was unable to reproduce the original problem.  Adding
> the new visited flag identified the issue immediately.  Tested with
> tests from nightlies and the nsk JVMTI related tests.
>


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