RFR: 8304919: Implementation of Virtual Threads

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 28 10:55:41 UTC 2023


JEP 444 proposes to make virtual threads a permanent feature in Java 21. The APIs that were preview APIs in Java 19/20 are changed to permanent and their `@since`/equivalent are changed to 21 (as per the guidance in JEP 12). The JNI and JVMTI versions are bumped as this is the first change in 21 to need the new version number. A lot of tests are updated to drop `@enablePreview` and --enable-preview.

There is one API change from Java 19/20, the preview API Thread.Builder.allowSetThreadLocals(boolean) is dropped. This requires an update to the JVMTI GetThreadInfo implementation to read the TCCL consistently.

In addition, there are a small number of implementation changes to sync up from the loom fibers branch:

- A number of stack frames are `@Hidden` to reduce noise in the stack traces. This exposed a few issues with the stack walker code. More specifically, the cases where  end of a continuation falls precisely at the end of the batch, or where the remaining frames are hidden, weren't handled correctly.
- The code to emit the JFR jdk.ThreadSleepEvent is refactored so it's in Thread rather than in two classes.
- A few robustness improvements for OOME and SOE. There is more to do here, for future PRs.
- New system property to print a trace dump when virtual thread sets its own value of a TL.
- ThreadPerTaskExecutor is changed to use FutureTask.

Testing: tier1-6.

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Commit messages:
 - Merge
 - Initial sync from fibers branch

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13203/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13203&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8304919
  Stats: 1964 lines in 198 files changed: 698 ins; 760 del; 506 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13203.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13203/head:pull/13203

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13203


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