RFR: 8368124: Show useful thread names in ASAN reports [v2]

[SendaoYan]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:52:58 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On Linux, ASAN only shows some internal thread designation on reports, e.g. `T49`, which is useless.
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>> This patch adds the ability to see the real internal JVM thread names or user-supplied Java thread names in ASAN. This makes it possible to correlate ASAN reports with hs-err file reports (if ASAN is run with `halt_on_error=0` to give us a chance to get an hs-err file) or with a thread dump done beforehand.
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>> Note that it can only show up to 15 characters, though. Therefore, the patch tries to be smart about names that end in digits: such numbers are preserved such that the truncation happens in the middle of the name, e.g.:
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>> `"MyAllocationWorkerThread#4411"` -> `"MyAllocat..4411"`
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>> This latter improvement now also applies to thread names in gdb, since they are subject to the same limitation.
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>> Some examples from ASAN report: 
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>> Before:
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>> WRITE of size 8 at 0x7b749d2d9190 thread T49
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>> Now:
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>> WRITE of size 8 at 0x7bfc2f0d8380 thread T49 (MyThread#0)
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>> ==593899==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: attempting free .. in thread T76 (MyAllocati..29)
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   windows build error

Should we update the copyright year for src/hotspot/share/utilities/stringUtils.hpp

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27395#issuecomment-3315005950