[jdk17] RFR: 8258746: illegal access to global field _jvmci_old_thread_counters by terminated thread causes crash

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:21:26 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change moves the access to the global field _jvmci_old_thread_counters from the thread destructor to JavaThread::exit().  See the JBS issue for more details.  The free of _jvmci_counters is left in the destructor intentionally, as it is allocated in the JavaThread constructor and not all termination paths go through JavaThread::exit().

Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/154