RFR: 8253262: Allocate in DumpRegion is not thread safe

Thu Sep 17 15:37:01 UTC 2020

On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:23:50 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This seems okay but isn't dumping done at a safepoint?

There is case the code is executed in other JavaThread (seen in Finalizer thread) other than the JavaThread which does
loading classes and creating symbols. That is before the dump starts. The word 'at dump' seems misleading.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/216