RFR: 8352299: GenShen: Young cycles that interrupt old cycles cannot be cancelled [v4]

[William Kemper]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:51:41 GMT, William Kemper <wkemper at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The sequence of events that creates this state:
>> 1. An old collection is trying to finish marking by flushing SATB buffers with a Handshake
>> 2. The regulator thread cancels old marking to start a young collection
>> 3. A mutator thread shortly follows and attempts to cancel the nascent young collection
>> 4. Step `3` fails (because of this bug) and cancellation reason does _not_ become `allocation failure`
>> 5. The mutator thread enters a tight loop in which it retries allocations without `waiting`
>> 6. The mutator thread remains in the `thread_in_vm` state and prevents the VM thread from completing step `1`.
>
> William Kemper has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Stop casting GCCause to jbyte

Okay, filed: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352914. Thanks for the review.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24105#issuecomment-2752357291