RFR: 8013214 BigApps fails due to 'fatal error: Illegal threadstate encountered: 6'

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

On 4/29/13 12:05 PM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> The fix of 8011218 caused this failure. When a JavaThread is in _thread_in_vm state, it is not a right state that it can call SafepointSynchronize::block().
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> The fix is base on Dan's comment, that grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol.
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> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8013214
> Webrev:  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8013214/webrev/

src/share/vm/services/memBaseline.cpp
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Thumbs up.

Dan


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> Test:
>    Ran kitchensink stress test on Linux x86, compared before and after fix. The bug was reproducible without the fix and no longer reproducible after.
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> Thanks,
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> -Zhengyu