RFR: 8255582: Introduce SemaphoreLock and SemaphoreLocker

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:09:50 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Semaphores can be used as low-level locks, but the readability of the code using them could be better. I propose that we introduce two new classes:
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>> SemaphoreLock - which provides the operations lock, unlock, try_lock.
>> 
>> SemaphoreLocker - Equivalent to MutexLocker.
>
> Marked as reviewed by ayang (Author).

Moved over to hotspot-dev.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/927