Request for Review(xs) - 8155263: DisableStartThread should not be applied to GC worker threads
Jon Masamitsu
jon.masamitsu at oracle.com
Tue Jul 12 17:37:59 UTC 2016
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155263
The flag DisableStartThread is defined for Java threads
develop(bool, DisableStartThread, false, \
"Disable starting of additional Java threads " \
"(for debugging only)")
but was being applied to GC threads in one case. I removed
that use.
Tested by comparing the GC threads before and after the
change to verify that the concurrent GC threads were running.
Using +DisableStartThread on the command line cause the Java
threads not to run and under those circumstances a safepoint
is not reached (Java threads never get there). Any of the test
programs I tried hung at the first GC.
Thanks.
Jon
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