RFR: 8249627: Degrade Thread.suspend and Thread.resume [v2]
Alan Bateman
alanb at openjdk.org
Sat Sep 24 06:50:46 UTC 2022
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:57:56 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Degrade Thread.suspend/resume to throw UOE unconditionally.
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>> Another step in the removal of this deadlock prone mis-feature from the user-facing API. Thread.suspend/resume have been deprecated since JDK 1.2 (1998) and terminally deprecated since Java 14. ThreadGroup.suspend/resume were degraded to throw UOE in Java 19. As of Java 19, Thread.suspend/resume continues to work for platform threads but throws UOE for virtual threads. The next step is to degrade both methods to throw UOE for all threads. A corpus search of 19M classes in 113k JAR files found only 22 classes using these methods so this change is unlikely to be disruptive.
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>> The change requires some minor adjustments to the JVM TI and JDWP specifications, and a minor update to the JDI docs.
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>> Leonid Mesnik is working on [PR10351](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10351) to remove/replace the last few usages of Thread.suspend/resume from the hotspot tests (most of these can use JVMTI SuspendThread/ResumeThread).
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> Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains ten commits:
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> - Update DegradedMethodsThrowUOE to test Thread.stop
> - Merge
> - Update modifyThread and modifyThreadGroup targets
> - Merge
> - Fix typo in test comment
> - Keep link to threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html
> - Merge
> - Tests
> - Initial commit
Leonid has integrated JDK-8289607 to remove the last usages of Thread.suspend/resume from the hotspot tests so I've refreshed this PR to drop the temporary excluding of these tests.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10324
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