<Sound Dev> [9] Review Request: 8156169 Some sound tests rarely hangs because of incorrect synchronization

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 17.05.16 19:15, Phil Race wrote:
> The reason for the change to tracks.toArray() was not obvious
> from the code and I understood it only after reading your comment
> below. So perhaps you could add a short comment before you push.

The comment is added:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8156169/webrev.02/

>
> -phil.
>
> On 05/17/2016 07:30 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Hello, Audio Guru.
>>
>> Please review the fix for jdk9.
>> While working on some bugs reported by the mach5 project, I found that
>> some of our tests are quite unstable, and the reason was in this(or
>> similar) pattern:
>> ....
>> clip.start();
>> while(clip.isRunning());
>> ....
>> The status of the clip is run or not is updated on a different thread,
>> but our clip implementation lacks of synchronization of getters and
>> the hotspot inline such methods to while(true). There are some other
>> flags which have the similar issue, I tried to fix all of them in the
>> proposed version of the fix.
>>
>> Also I propose the small cleanup of Sequence.java
>>  - It is not necessary to sync tracks.removeElement() on tracks,
>> because this is synchronized method.
>>  - tracks.toArray(new Track[tracks.size()]) should be synchronized on
>> tracks, because the problem can occurs between tracks.size() and
>> tracks.toArray(). But I decided to pass the empty array, so all the
>> work will be done in toArray() which is synchronized method.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156169
>> Webrev can be found at:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8156169/webrev.01
>>
>>
>


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Best regards, Sergey.