Prelim RFR: JDK-8214097: Rework thread initialization and teardown logic

[David Holmes]

Thanks Kim!

Once 8209974 is pushed I'll re-work this.

David

On 11/12/2018 9:18 am, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2018, at 2:07 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is a preliminary RFR to get feedback. I won't be pushing until 13 and the final RFR will have to sync with other changes that may impact what I'm doing here - e.g. Shenandoah GC.
>>
>> @Markus: does this help with your JFR event hooks?
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214097
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8214097/webrev/
> 
> Other than the bootstrapping code that should be simplified / removed in response to JDK-8215097,
> this looks good.  I think it will address the problems I ran into with GC-related hook changes I want
> to make as part of JDK-8209974.
>