RFR: 6983747: Clean up of unused dl_mutex lock.

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Apr 2 00:59:40 UTC 2015


Looks good Max!

Thanks,
David

On 2/04/2015 6:33 AM, Max Ockner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have removed the unwanted comment.
>
> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/6983747.3/
>
> (For now, please reply to me as well since I am trying to resolve some
> issues with the hotspot-dev mailing list)
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
>
>
> On 3/26/2015 4:21 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>> Goetz or Volker, did you see this?
>> thanks!
>> Coleen
>>
>> On 3/25/15, 12:19 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> On 25/03/2015 3:13 AM, harold seigel wrote:
>>>> Hi Max,
>>>>
>>>> Should this comment be removed from both files?
>>>>
>>>>    // Glibc-2.0 libdl is not MT safe. If you are building with any
>>>> glibc,
>>>>    // chances are you might want to run the generated bits against
>>>> glibc-2.0
>>>>    // libdl.so, so always use locking for any version of glibc.
>>>
>>> Yes that should also be deleted - it was part of the incorrect copy
>>> done by 6721093. And as per 6626677 glibc was fixed at version 2.1
>>> back in 1997.
>>>
>>> Since this was all investigated we had the AIX code added, so we need
>>> to get one of the AIX folk to confirm that no locking is needed
>>> around dlsym on that platform. (I would be very surprised if it were
>>> needed :) )
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Harold
>>>>
>>>> On 3/24/2015 1:01 PM, Max Ockner wrote:
>>>>> This was not intentional. I thought the comment was referring to the
>>>>> line containing dl_mutex, but it was not. I put the comment back in.
>>>>> New webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/6983747.2/
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Max
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/24/2015 12:35 PM, Dmitry Dmitriev wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Max,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you please tell me, you intentionally delete following comment
>>>>>> from os_linux.cpp file:
>>>>>> 4680   // else it defaults to CLOCK_REALTIME
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that this comment should be leaved. What you think about
>>>>>> that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not a reviewer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Dmitry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 24.03.2015 17:56, Max Ockner wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> please review my clean up of the unused dl_mutex lock.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6983747
>>>>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/6983747/
>>>>>>> Summary: Deleted all references to the dl_mutex lock which was no
>>>>>>> longer used.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tested with jtreg runtime tests.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Max Ockner
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>


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