RFR (S): 8165858: heapRegionManager is missing volatile qualifier for _claims
Erik Österlund
erik.osterlund at oracle.com
Mon Sep 19 11:47:50 UTC 2016
Hi,
This bug is a split out of the larger JDK-8033552 for adding volatile
qualifiers to lock-free code.
The motivation is to make our implementation more robust since these
kind of issues have struck us a few times too many already.
CR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165858
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8165858/webrev.00/
This specific CR handles the lack of volatile qualifiers for the _claims
field of the HeapRegionClaimer class in the heapRegionManager files. It
is part of a lock-free protocol for claiming reagions, and should use a
volatile qualifier to be more robust.
Testing: JPRT
I will need a sponsor to push this.
Thanks,
/Erik
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