Review Request (S) 8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers

Dmitry Samersoff dmitry.samersoff at oracle.com
Wed Nov 27 00:08:28 PST 2013


Serguei,

Is it better to just convert
assert at ll. 273 into if (vf != NULL) ... ?

-Dmitry



On 2013-11-27 05:34, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
> Please, review the fix for:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028126
> 
> Open webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sspitsyn/webrevs/2013/hotspot/8028126-JVMTI-HS101.1/
> 
> 
> Summary:
>   This is a fix for a possible race condition between the
> VMOp_GetCurrentLocation
>   reaching a safepoint and target debuggee thread exiting from Java
> execution.
>   The fix is to recheck the existence of the last Java frame at a safepoint
>   and clean the thread current location if the thread has been already
> exited from Java.
> 
>   I'm suggesting to fix this in hs25/JDK 8.
>   It is important to fix as it is a P2 bug and the risk of fixing it is
> low.
>   But need reviewers to share opinions on this.
>   I'll add the 8-critical-request label if reviewers agree with the above.
> 
> 
> Testing:
>   The test nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 that was
> originally failed.
>   In progress: nsk.jvmti, nsk.jdi, nsk.jdwp
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Serguei


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Dmitry Samersoff
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