RFR: 8356173: Remove ThreadCritical [v4]

Wed May 14 14:37:57 UTC 2025

On Wed, 14 May 2025 11:59:46 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> It may be that there might be other reasons to fix this OS code to allow static initialization, but that wasn't the scope of this change. I just wanted ThreadCritical to be removed. We were looking at this in the context of other locking changes that are forthcoming, and we want os level locking to be more uniform under PlatformMutex.

Certainly, sorry for delaying this simple fix. We can always improve upon it later if we want.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25072#issuecomment-2880486685