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

[Kim Barrett]

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 8/8/16 9:25 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi Kim,
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>>> On 2016-08-01 20:47, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>>> This updated webrev addresses concerns about the performance of the VM
>>>> API used by the reference processor thread in the original webrev.
>>>> 
>>>> New webrevs:
>>>> full: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/jdk.03/
>>>>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/hotspot.03/
>>>> incr: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/jdk.03.incr/
>>>>      http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8156500/hotspot.03.incr/
>>> Overall I think you managed to hit a good balance here, keeping the VM API straight forward without loosing flexibility. Having the ReferenceHandler doing the actual work seems sound and avoids some complexity, which I like.
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> I like this split of the functions.   Can this change get any more perfect? :)
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> Coleen

Thanks!