RFR: avoid extra park of vthread when using fixed thread pool [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:00:58 GMT, Miao Zheng <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> The test case of ParkWithFixedThreadPool.java create 300 virtual threads, each vthread(exclude latest vthread) park itself and unpark previous vthread. The expected result is any vthread can finish.
>> 
>> Running this test case in slowdebug and the test will random hang.
>> 
>> There are three vthreads which are vt-1, vt-2, vt-3;
>> (1) vt-1 take the ReentrantLock, and vt-2 try to unpark vt-1, and vt-2 fail to get ReentrantLock so it park itself( the call stack is shown below); 
>> (2)vt-3 unpark vt-2, and vt-2 try to get ReentrantLock again, but the ReentrantLock is still owned by vt-1, vt-2 park itself again;
>> (3)vt-1 release the ReentrantLock and unpark vt-2, vt-2 park itself at ParkWithFixedThreadPool.java:55, and it will never unpark.(because the unpark from vt-3 has consumed)
>> 
>> The reason is scheduler.execute() will try to alloc a Reentrant lock when using fix thread pool, the call stack is like:
>>     at java.lang.VirtualThread.tryPark(VirtualThread.java:472)
>>     at java.lang.VirtualThread.park(VirtualThread.java:424)
>>     at java.lang.System$2.parkVirtualThread(System.java:1279)
>>     at sun.misc.VirtualThreads.park(VirtualThreads.java:56)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:183)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:836)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireQueued(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:870)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquire(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1199)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync.lock(ReentrantLock.java:209)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock.lock(ReentrantLock.java:285)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue.offer(LinkedBlockingQueue.java:418)
>>     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1371)
>>     at java.lang.VirtualThread.unpark(VirtualThread.java:502)
>>     at java.lang.System$2.unparkVirtualThread(System.java:1287)
>>     at sun.misc.VirtualThreads.unpark(VirtualThreads.java:70)
>>     at ParkWithFixedThreadPool$1.run(ParkWithFixedThreadPool.java:51)
>> 
>> 
>> The solution is switch back to carrier thread before call scheduler.execute();
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/loom/pull/59