Integrated: 8367013: Add Atomic<T> to package/replace idiom of volatile var plus AtomicAccess:: operations

[Kim Barrett]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:10:41 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change that adds the type Atomic<T>, to use as the type
> of a variable that is accessed (including writes) concurrently by multiple
> threads. This is intended to replace (most) uses of the current HotSpot idiom
> of declaring a variable volatile and accessing that variable using functions
> from the AtomicAccess class.
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blame/528f93f8cb9f1fb9c19f31ab80c8a546f47beed2/doc/hotspot-style.md#L138-L147
> 
> This change replaces https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/27462. Differences are
> 
> * Substantially restructured `Atomic<T>`, to be IDE friendly. It's
> operationally the same, with the same API, hence uses and gtests didn't need
> to change in that respect. Thanks to @stefank for raising this issue, and for
> some suggestions toward improvements.
> 
> * Changed how fetch_then_set for atomic translated types is handled, to avoid
> having the function there at all if it isn't usable, rather than just removing
> it via SFINAE, leaving an empty overload set.
> 
> * Added more gtests.
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1-6, GHA sanity tests

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 10220ed0
Author:    Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/10220ed06ea452083693406113107484fce40275
Stats:     1236 lines in 7 files changed: 1197 ins; 0 del; 39 mod

8367013: Add Atomic<T> to package/replace idiom of volatile var plus AtomicAccess:: operations

Reviewed-by: stefank, aboldtch, jsjolen

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27539