RFR: 8253694: Remove Thread::muxAcquire() from ThreadCrashProtection() [v3]

Tue Oct 6 03:31:41 UTC 2020

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 03:25:53 GMT, Patricio Chilano Mateo <pchilanomate at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> So let me see if I've got this straight. Prior to JDK-8183925 CrashProtection was exclusively for the WatcherThread.
>> JDK-8183925 generalized that to allow any(?) thread to use it. Now as the only client is the JfrSampler thread we are
>> making crash protection exclusively only available to it.
>
>> So let me see if I've got this straight. Prior to JDK-8183925 CrashProtection was exclusively for the WatcherThread.
>> JDK-8183925 generalized that to allow any(?) thread to use it. Now as the only client is the JfrSampler thread we are
>> making crash protection exclusively only available to it.
> 
> Exactly.

Thanks @dcubed-ojdk, @coleenp and @dholmes-ora for the reviews.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/376