RFR: 8366121: Hotspot Style Guide should document conventions for lock-free code

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:26:59 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a topic that we, at Oracle, have discussed numerous times over the years and we have some simple guidelines that never get written down properly and which we/I tend to forget and then can't locate. To remedy that I would like to capture a few very simple style rules that exist for documentation purposes not necessarily correctness.
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> Thanks

Approved

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26934#pullrequestreview-3165128716