RFR: 8309171: Test vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti/scenarios/jni_interception/JI05/ji05t001/TestDescription.java fails after JDK-8308341

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 06:41:26 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The fix for [JDK-8308341](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8308341) overlooked the fact that during VM initialization agents can run and create native threads that will attach to (and potentially detach from) the VM. The check that VM init was complete before allowing those operations was too strong and has to be reverted. All the guards, except for that of GetCreatedJavaVMs itself, is reverted to the way it was before JDK-8308341.
> 
> Testing: tiers 1-4 (in progress)
> 
> Thanks.

If we could lock the VM init section, then any thread trying to do anything that depended on VM to be initialized, would just sit waiting till the VM is ready...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14239#issuecomment-1570673388