RFR: 8369515: Deadlock between JVMTI and JNI ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 15 04:21:27 UTC 2025
As discussed in JBS the deadlock occurs when the call to `ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical` performs the transition from native to VM, and in the process checks for special runtime exit conditions - which includes the `obj_deopt_suspend` request. The simple solution is to define a custom JNI ENTRY with custom `ThreadInVMfromNative` that elides the exit check.
The change is limited to `ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical` and `ReleaseStringCritical`.
There is no regression test as this has only been seen in long running stress tests.
Testing:
-tiers 1-6
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Commit messages:
- 8369515
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28779&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8369515
Stats: 31 lines in 2 files changed: 27 ins; 0 del; 4 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28779/head:pull/28779
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779
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