RFR: 8016074 NMT: assertion failed: assert(thread->thread_state() == from) failed: coming from wrong thread state

Coleen Phillimore coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Wed Jul 3 04:42:59 PDT 2013


This looks good.
Coleen

On 7/3/2013 7:32 AM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> Solaris os::yield_all() implementation depends on os::sleep(), which 
> requires JavaThread to be in _thread_in_vm state. As NMT tracking call 
> can originate from any thread in any state, transits to _thread_in_vm 
> can be dangerous, if caller holds any locks, deadlock or lock out of 
> order can result, since state transition code may block on Threads_lock.
>
> The solution is to use os::NakedYield() which calls to system 
> thr_yield().
>
> On Linux and BSD, os::yield_all() and os::NakedYield() implementations 
> are the same.
>
> On Windows, the implementations are different, based on our QA 
> feedback, os::NakedYield() does not perform as well as os::yield_all().
>
>
> External bug:http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8016074
> JBS:https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8016074
> Webrev:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8016074/webrev.00/
>
>
> Tests:
>   - JPRT with -XX:-AutoShutdownNMT flag
>   - Kitchensink on Solaris 11, with -XX:NativeMemoryTracking=detail 
> -XX:-AutoShutdownNMT -XX:+SafepointALot
>     over 12 hours now.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Zhengyu
>



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