RFR: 8309400: JDI spec needs to clarify when OpaqueFrameException and NativeMethodException are thrown

Chris Plummer cjplummer at openjdk.org
Tue Jul 15 22:12:49 UTC 2025


Fix how ThreadReference.popFrame() and ThreadReference.forceEarlyReturn deal with JDWP OPAQUE_FRAME error.

Before virtual threads, OpaqueFrameException did not exist and these API always threw NativeMethodException when JDWP OPAQUE_FRAME error was returned. For virtual threads OpaqueFrameException was added to handle the case where a virtual thread was not suspended at an event, so the JDI implementation was updated to throw OpaqueFrameException if it detected that a native method was not the cause. It turns out however that JVMTI (and therefore JDWP) can return OPAQUE_FRAME error for reasons other than a native method or the special virtual thread case, and for platform threads we were incorrectly throwing NativeMethodException in these cases. This PR fixes that. For platform threads we now only throw NativeMethodException if a native method is detected, and otherwise throw OpaqueFrameException.

The spec language is also being cleaned up to better align with JVMTI. Rather than calling out all the reasons for OpaqueFrameException, a more generic explanation is given.

This is somewhat of a preliminary PR so I can get some feedback. I still need to do a CR and complete testing.

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Commit messages:
 - fix OpaqueFrameException related issues

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26335/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26335&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8309400
  Stats: 35 lines in 3 files changed: 5 ins; 9 del; 21 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26335.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26335/head:pull/26335

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26335


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