RFR: 8280828: Improve invariants in NonblockingQueue::append [v2]

Tue Feb 8 20:22:10 UTC 2022

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 12:08:51 GMT, Ivan Walulya <iwalulya at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Kim Barrett has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into append-invariant
>>  - minor comment fixes
>>  - append invariant
>
> Not part of this PR, but we need to add a comment about `push/append` being susceptible to ABA behavior as discovered in JDK-8273383.

Thanks @walulyai and @tschatzl for reviews.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7250