RFR: 8332256: Shenandoah: Do not visit heap threads during shutdown

[Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna]

On Tue, 14 May 2024 21:29:01 GMT, William Kemper <wkemper at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In rare cases, this may lead to a crash or hang during shutdown.

I agree that what you did makes intuitive sense.

> 
> Alas, we made this change more than a year ago in the shenandoah repo when we were less disciplined about tickets and other artifacts. I looked for discussions of this change, but couldn't find anything.

What do other GCs do?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19239#issuecomment-2113050210