RFR: 8297286: runtime/vthread tests crashing after JDK-8296324 [v16]

[Patricio Chilano Mateo]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 18:17:13 GMT, Serguei Spitsyn <sspitsyn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The fix is to enable virtual threads support for late binding JVMTI agents.
>> The fix includes:
>> - New function `JvmtiEnvBase::enable_virtual_threads_notify_jvmti()` which does enabling JVMTI VTMS transition notifications in case of agent loaded into running VM. This function executes a VM operation counting VTMS transition bits in all `JavaThread`'s to correctly set the static counter `_VTMS_transition_count` needed for VTMS transition protocol.
>> - New function `JvmtiEnvBase::disable_virtual_threads_notify_jvmti()` which is needed for testing. It is used by the `WhiteBox` API.
>> - New WhiteBox function `WB_SetVirtualThreadsNotifyJvmtiMode(JNIEnv* env, jobject wb, jboolean enable)` needed for testing of this update.
>> - New regression test: `serviceability/jvmti/vthread/ToggleNotifyJvmtiTest`
>> 
>> Testing:
>> - New test: `serviceability/jvmti/vthread/ToggleNotifyJvmtiTest`
>> - The originally failed tests are expected to pass now:
>>   `runtime/vthread/RedefineClass.java`
>>   `runtime/vthread/TestObjectAllocationSampleEvent.java` 
>> - In progress: Run the tiers 1-6 to make sure there are no regression.
>
> Serguei Spitsyn has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   set java_lang_Thread::is_in_VTMS_transition bit when notifyJvmti is off

Marked as reviewed by pchilanomate (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13133#pullrequestreview-1369718538