RFR (S) JDK-8162553: Crash in class unloading due to null CLD having a zero _keep_alive value
Lois Foltan
lois.foltan at oracle.com
Mon Aug 8 19:41:41 UTC 2016
Hello,
Please review the following fix:
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lfoltan/bug_jdk8162553/webrev/
Bug: Crash in class unloading due to null CLD having a zero _keep_alive
value
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8162553
Summary:
Limit the increment/decrement of the ClassLoaderData _keep_alive field
to just ClassLoaderData(s) created specifically for an anonymous class.
Due to the uniqueness that no other class shares an anonymous class'
ClassLoaderData, no other non-GC thread has knowledge of the anonymous
class while it is being defined. By limiting the increment/decrement to
just ClassLoaderData(s) dedicated to anonymous classes, the need to make
this an atomic operation is avoided. This bug was exposed since
java_lang_Class::create_mirror() is multi-threaded once java.lang.Class
is loaded during JVM start up.
Testing:
Several runs of hotspot nightly testing and several iterations of
various tests that have exposed this issue.
Thanks,
Lois
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