Request for Review(xs) - 8155263: DisableStartThread should not be applied to GC worker threads

[Jon Masamitsu]

Thanks.

Jon

On 7/19/2016 11:11 AM, sangheon wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> The change looks good to me too.
>
> Thanks,
> Sangheon
>
>
> On 07/19/2016 10:47 AM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>> Thanks, Thomas, for the Review.
>>
>> I still need one more review, please.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On 7/12/2016 11:49 AM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>> Yes, Thomas, you guessed correctly.  And so others don't have to guess.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8155263/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On 7/12/2016 10:37 AM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>>> 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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