RFR (S): 8165859: gcTaskThread is missing volatile qualifier and barriers for _time_stamps

[Erik Österlund]

Hi Kim,

Thanks for the review!

/Erik

On 2016-09-19 19:50, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Erik Österlund <erik.osterlund at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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-8165859
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8165859/webrev.00/
>>
>> This specific CR handles the lack of volatile qualifiers for the _time_stamps field, and relatedly the lack of acquire barriers when accessing it.
>> Hopefully, the addition of load acquire and volatile should make this a bit more robust.
>>
>> Testing: JPRT
>>
>> I will need a sponsor to push this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Erik
> Looks good.
>