RFR: 8252657: JVMTI agent is not unloaded when Agent_OnAttach is failed

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Dec 1 02:44:29 UTC 2020


On 1/12/2020 11:45 am, Chris Plummer wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 07:27:43 GMT, Yasumasa Suenaga <ysuenaga at openjdk.org> wrote:
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>>> * Q3: What has to be done for statically linked agent?
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>> JVMTI spec says "unless it is statically linked into the executable", so I think we can ignore about Agent_OnUnload_L() in this PR.
> 
> I don't think that makes sense. If you call it for dynamically linked then you need to call it for statically linked also.

Agreed. Even though you can't physically unload the statically linked 
library, if it is logically unloaded by some mechanism, then 
Agent_OnUnload_L is supposed to be called.

David
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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/19
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