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

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Mar 6 18:09:18 PST 2012


Yep - for the public record - fix is good.

Thanks,
David

On 7/03/2012 10:24 AM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> Thanks Coleen and Vladimir.  Yumin and David also reviewed this.
>
> tom
>
> On Mar 6, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
>> 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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