RFR: 8369515: Deadlock between JVMTI and JNI ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical [v2]
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.org
Thu Dec 18 01:21:17 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.
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> The change is limited to `ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical` and `ReleaseStringCritical`.
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> UPDATE: we are now employing a much simpler solution.
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> There is no regression test as this has only been seen in long running stress tests.
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> Testing:
> -tiers 1-6
David Holmes has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
- Greatly simplifed fix to just defer object_deopt whilst in JNI critical region
- Merge branch 'master' into 8369515-jni-critical
- Revert "8369515"
This reverts commit 3beb23ccbf5adb98d8c6ad404d40c603bbf499dc.
- 8369515
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779/files/3beb23cc..b96a9bc2
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28779&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28779&range=00-01
Stats: 12369 lines in 431 files changed: 7742 ins; 1537 del; 3090 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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