RFR: 8156500: deadlock provoked by new stress test com/sun/jdi/OomDebugTest.java

[Kim Barrett]

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 3:52 AM, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
> On 2016-08-09 03:25, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> I have one suggestion though, regarding CheckReferencePendingList(). While reviewing I found that I had to check several times what its return value actually meant, the "check" part of the name doesn't quite reveal that.
>>> Further, it seems to me that the waiting path of this function has fairly little in common with the non-waiting path, e.g. it always returns true. So, to make both the naming and implementation more clear I'd like to suggest that we split this into two separate functions, HasReferencePendingList() and WaitForReferencePendingList(), like this:
>> 
>> I was thinking about splitting things way, and ended up not doing so
>> for no good reason I can think of. And it does seem clearer that way,
>> so...
>> 
>> New webrevs:
>> full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/jdk.04/
>>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/hotspot.04/
>> incr: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/jdk.04.inc/
>>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/hotspot.04.inc/
> 
> Thanks for fixing, looks good.

Thanks!

> 
> cheers,
> Per
> 
>> 
>>> Other than this I think the patch looks good.