RFR: 8295673: Deprecate legacy parallel class loading workaround for non-parallel-capable class loaders

Coleen Phillimore coleenp at openjdk.org
Thu Nov 3 12:50:41 UTC 2022


This change adds an option **EnableWaitForParallelLoad** to enable the legacy behavior where the VM will manage synchronization for multiple threads loading the same class using a non-parallel capable class loader that have released the class loader lock.  The VM will break the class loader lock for parallel threads trying to load the class, and wait for the first thread that initiated loading the class to complete.  The subsequent threads will use the result of the first thread, rather than get a LinkageError: duplicate class definition for loading the class without synchronization.
Releasing the class loader lock was a common workaround for class loaders that used a non-hierarchical delegation scheme to avoid deadlock, before parallel capable class loading was added. 
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#registerAsParallelCapable()

Tested with tier1-6 and internal applications.

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Commit messages:
 - 8295673: Deprecate legacy parallel class loading workaround for non-parallel-capable class loaders

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10832/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10832&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295673
  Stats: 27 lines in 7 files changed: 14 ins; 4 del; 9 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10832.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10832/head:pull/10832

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10832


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