[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8303861: Error handling step timeouts should never be blocked by OnError and others

[Paul Hohensee]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:53:49 GMT, Alexey Pavlyutkin <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi, here is backport of JDK-8303861. The patch fixes error reporting timeout processing for the case when a user specifies OnError  hook. Before the patch in this case JVM just ignored timeout and therefore WatcherThread could not break malloc() deadlock in error reporting routine.
> 
> If fact original patch applied without a scratch but there is a little conflict in the baselines, so the backport is not clean.
> 
> Verification/regression (amd64/LTS20.04):  test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/ErrorHandling (includes updated test)

Ltgm.

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Marked as reviewed by phh (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/1211#pullrequestreview-1351383311