RFR: 8299414: JVMTI FollowReferences should support references from VirtualThread stack [v7]

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:55:59 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Alex Menkov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Fixed indent in collect_vthread_stack_roots
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> In the spec for FollowReferences, it says that the heap roots include "references from thread stacks". There is a similar sentence in the deprecated IterateOverReachableObjects function. We should decide whether these sentences need to be changed to say "platform thread stacks".

@AlanBateman  as virtual threads have already been defined to not be GC roots aka "heap roots" then it would seem the spec does need adjusting to say "platform threads".

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13254#issuecomment-1506420491