RFR (XS): 6661889: thread id on Linux is inconsistent in error and log outputs

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Finally after 7 years, since I filed this bug, it will be fixed :)

Looks good.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 7/29/15 3:31 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On 30/07/2015 6:34 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>> David, can you review/sponsor this, per our conversation of last week?
>
> Yes I can sponsor and it is also Reviewed.
>
> But I'd like a second review from someone else.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> It fixes an issue where, on Linux, some of the Hotspot logging output
>> identifies threads by pthread_id, and some of it identifies threads by
>> kernel-level TID.  This happened because Hotspot calls into two
>> different APIs that provide the thread ID, and developers seem to have
>> picked which one they call at random.
>>
>> The CR makes these APIs consistently use the kernel-level TID, and makes
>> one of the APIs a thin shim over the other.
>>
>> Conversation:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-July/015507.html
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6661889
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmanson/6661889/webrev.01/
>>
>> Jeremy