Java 9 build 148 causes trouble in Apache Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch

[Carsten Varming]

Dear Andrew,

Do you have a pointer to a discussion about the changes to the JMM you
propose?

Carsten

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is JDK-4724038.  It is possible to unmap a MappedByteBuffer
> safely with little effect on efficiency: my basic idea is to add an
> indirection which all callers (even those using derived buffers) have
> to use to access the memory, and then removing most uses of this
> indirection with a little compiler magic.  A few will still remain, but
> these will be the minimum required to guarantee security and won't
> affect the speed of most operations.
>
> I have a plan to implement this, but it requires changes to the Java
> Memory Model and to the compilers.  I didn't get it done in time for
> JDK 9 because of being distracted by a ton of other things, but I hope
> I'll get it done by JDK 10.
>