RFR 8157318: ThreadedSeedGenerator uses System.currentTimeMillis and stops generating when time is set back

[Wang Weijun]

> On Jun 16, 2016, at 6:37 AM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> This will not work because System.nanoTime() can be negative and wrap around.  You can't compare one nanoTime to another, only differences are useful.

Yes, you are right. How about this then?

diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
@@ -354,8 +354,8 @@
                         // We wait 250milli quanta, so the minimum wait time
                         // cannot be under 250milli.
                         int latch = 0;
-                        long l = System.currentTimeMillis() + 250;
-                        while (System.currentTimeMillis() < l) {
+                        long l = System.nanoTime();
+                        while (System.nanoTime() - l < 250000000) {
                             synchronized(this){};
                             latch++;
                         }

Thanks
Max

> 
> On 06/15/2016 05:30 PM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
>> Looks good, Max, thanks for taking this over.
>> 
>> Xuelei, it's a threaded accumulator, which feeds into the seed
>> generator.  We wait a certain amount of time before generating the values.
>> 
>> Brad
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/15/2016 5:07 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I understand the while loop.  But this update looks fine to
>>> me as it does not change the logic of the code except to use elapsed
>>> time.
>>> 
>>> Xuelei
>>> 
>>> On 6/15/2016 11:12 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>>>> Please take a review on the patch
>>>> 
>>>> diff --git
>>>> a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> a/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
>>>> +++
>>>> b/src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/provider/SeedGenerator.java
>>>> @@ -354,8 +354,8 @@
>>>>                         // We wait 250milli quanta, so the minimum
>>>> wait time
>>>>                         // cannot be under 250milli.
>>>>                         int latch = 0;
>>>> -                        long l = System.currentTimeMillis() + 250;
>>>> -                        while (System.currentTimeMillis() < l) {
>>>> +                        long l = System.nanoTime() + 250000000;
>>>> +                        while (System.nanoTime() < l) {
>>>>                             synchronized(this){};
>>>>                             latch++;
>>>>                         }
>>>> 
>>>> nanoTime() is for elapsed time and should be used here.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Max
>>>> 
>>> 
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