Integrated: 8369250: Assess and remedy any unsafe usage of the Semaphore used by NonJavaThread::List

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 06:13:51 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The `NonJavaThread::List` has a statically allocated instance which contains a `SingleWriterSynchronizer`, which contains a `Semaphore`. The `VMThread` can try to remove itself from the list after the static destructors have executed, leading to an assertion failure for the `Semaphore` but potentially it could crash as the `List` itself gets deallocated..  Simplest fix is to change the `List` instance to a `DeferredStatic` such that it is never destroyed.
> 
> Testing:
>  - tiers 1-3 (sanity)
> 
> Thanks.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 4d0da18a
Author:    David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/4d0da18ab6e83549e81074e15011cf8a4fbd4ea9
Stats:     25 lines in 3 files changed: 13 ins; 1 del; 11 mod

8369250: Assess and remedy any unsafe usage of the Semaphore used by NonJavaThread::List

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27664