RFR: 8259808: Add JFR event to detect GC locker stall

Denghui Dong ddong at openjdk.java.net
Mon Jan 18 02:53:37 UTC 2021


On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 03:14:10 GMT, Denghui Dong <ddong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> GC locker will stall the operation of GC, resulting in some Java threads can not continue to run until GC locker is released, thus affecting the response time of the application. Add a JFR event to report this information is helpful to detect this issue.
>> 
>> For the test purpose, I add two Whitebox methods to lock/unlock critical.
>
> GC locker will stall the operation of GC, resulting in some Java threads can not continue to run until GC locker is released, thus affecting the response time of the application. Add a JFR event to report this information is helpful to detect this issue.
> 
> For the test purpose, I add two Whitebox methods to lock/unlock critical.

Greetings,
please help review this patch:)

Thanks

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2088


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