Request for review (M): 7132070: Use a mach_port_t as the OSThread thread_id rather than pthread_t on BSD/OSX

[David Holmes]

Hi Staffan,

Not directly related to the change but what does  _ALLBSD_SOURCE signify?

In os_bsd.cpp:

In os::thread_cpu_time the type of mach_thread has changed from 
mach_port_t to thread_t, but mach_thread is still passed into 
thread_info(). I expect they are both simple integral types, but I would 
expect that later gcc compilers might complain about this. What type 
does thread_info expect?

Otherwise seems ok.

David


On 15/02/2012 8:29 PM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> Please review the following change:
>
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7132070
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/7132070/webrev.00/
>
> This changes the value returned by OSThread::thread_id() and
> os::current_thread_id() on macosx to return the mach thread_t instead of
> pthread_t. There is a separate method OSThread:pthread_id() that returns
> the pthread_t.
>
> The reason for this change is both that JFR would like a 4 byte value
> for thread id, and that SA requires access to the thread_t.
>
> Thanks,
> /Staffan