RFR: 8369622: GlobalChunkPoolMutex needs to be recursive [v2]

Zhengyu Gu zgu at openjdk.org
Thu Oct 16 08:16:36 UTC 2025


On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:05:41 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The GlobalChunkPoolMutex replaced ThreadCritical in [JDK-8356173](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8356173). In NMT, we can unfortunately reach a recursive locking situation in situations when the VM is crashing and NMT attempts to perform a error report. I suggest that we make this particular mutex recursive, until we can resolve the design issues that causes this.
>> 
>> This PR also replaces the static initialization with `DeferredStatic`, and fixes the indentation of access modifiers to be consistently 0-indented.
>> 
>> Please note that we do not take the lock in NMT in order to allocate memory, but in order to have a "static picture" of the arena counters.
>
> Johan Sjölen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Recur again!

LGTM

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Marked as reviewed by zgu (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27759#pullrequestreview-3343598597


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