RFR: 8255582: Introduce SemaphoreLock and SemaphoreLocker

[Kim Barrett]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:01:22 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank 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.
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> SemaphoreLocker - Equivalent to MutexLocker.

I don't think we should be using semaphores as a substitute for fixing mutex rankings or using some rankless mutex (like PlatformMutex).  So I'm not in favor of this change.

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