Integrated: 8296089: Remove debug agent code for special handling of Thread.resume()

Chris Plummer cjplummer at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 14 20:27:05 UTC 2022


On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:08:14 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The debug agent sets a breakpoint in Thread.resume() so it can prevent the debugger from suspending threads while in the resume call:
> 
>              /*
>               * Track the resuming thread by marking it as being within
>               * a resume and by setting up for notification on
>               * a frame pop or exception. We won't allow the debugger
>               * to suspend threads while any thread is within a
>               * call to resume. This (along with the block below)
>               * ensures that when the debugger
>               * suspends a thread it will remain suspended.
>               */
>              trackAppResume(resumer);
> 
> Now that Thread.resume() is unsupported and just throws UnsupportedOperationException, all debug agent code related to this support can be removed. It's at least a couple of hundred lines of code, and with a fair amount of confusing synchronization. It will be nice to see it go.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2f7dc5c4
Author:    Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/2f7dc5c4cde32978c46d092d593c5c76df1edc18
Stats:     370 lines in 3 files changed: 7 ins; 348 del; 15 mod

8296089: Remove debug agent code for special handling of Thread.resume()

Reviewed-by: alanb

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10922


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