RFR: 6815130 intermittent ThreadMXBean/Locks.java failure

[Erik Gahlin]

Looks good,

but I think it's better for tests to spin forever if they can't reach a 
state and let the test harness deal with it, but I'm fine with it, since 
it was that way before.

Erik

Jaroslav Bachorik skrev 2013-09-03 13:15:
> Please, review the following patch of the intermittently failing test:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/6815130/webrev.01
>
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6815130
>
>
> Sometimes the ThreadExecutionSynchronizer class failes to achieve the
> desired synchronization (due to possible data races when evaluating and
> setting the "waiting" variable) leading to test failures.
>
> The patch fixes the possibility of data race. Also the Locks class is
> tidied up a bit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -JB-