RFR: 8293592: Remove JVM_StopThread, stillborn, and related cleanup

[Chris Plummer]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 06:17:34 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Now that Thread.stop has been degraded to throw `UnsupportedOperationException` (JDK-8299610) the only direct source of async exceptions is from JVMTI `StopThread`. We can remove the `JVM_StopThread` code, remove the `stillborn` field from `java.lang.Thread` and its associated accesses from the VM, and we can stop special-casing `ThreadDeath` handling (as was done for the JDK code as part of JDK-8299610).
> 
> Note that JVMTI `StopThread` can only act on a thread that is alive, so it is no longer possible to stop a thread before it has been started.
> 
> Also note that there is a change in behaviour for JNI `ExceptionDescribe` as it no longer ignores `ThreadDeath` exceptions (not that it was ever specified to ignore them, it simply mirrored the behaviour of the default `UncaughtExceptionHandler` in `java.lang.ThreadGroup` - which also no longer ignores them so the mirroring behaviour remains the same).
> 
> Testing: tiers 1-3

src/jdk.jdi/share/classes/com/sun/tools/jdi/VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java line 102:

> 100:             try {
> 101:                 connector = connectors.next();
> 102:             } catch (Exception | Error x) {

Maybe this should just catch `Throwable`, although it is unclear to me why we would want to catch any exception here.

src/jdk.jdi/share/classes/com/sun/tools/jdi/VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java line 126:

> 124:             try {
> 125:                 transportService = transportServices.next();
> 126:             } catch (Exception | Error x) {

Another that could be just catch `Throwable`

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10400