JDK-7098506 : G1: Introduce safer STS join/leave (and vice versa) critical sections
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: gc
  • Affected Version: hs23
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2011-10-06
  • Updated: 2016-05-24
  • Resolved: 2016-05-24
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JDK 9
9.1Resolved
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-8079579 - Add SuspendibleThreadSetLeaver and make SuspendibleThreadSet::joint()/leave() private
Relates :  
JDK-8039147 - Cleanup SuspendibleThreadSet
Description
In G1 there are many places where code is bracketed by calls to SuspendibleThreadSet::join() and SuspendibleThreadSet::leave() (and vice versa).

It'd be helpful to introduce two classes that automatically ensure that the appropriate action is taken at the start and end of such a critical section using the standard idiom of calling the appropriate method in the constructor and destructor of each class (similar to how MutexLocker / MutexUnlocker work).
Comments
Closing this since the last piece of this enhancement (adding the SuspendibleThreadSetLeaver) was done in JDK-8079579.
24-05-2016
Part of this enhancement was implemented in JDK-8039147, where the SuspendibleThreadSetJoiner helper class was added. Keeping this RFE open for now as there's still no SuspendibleThreadSetLeaver helper class, which we might want to also add. There's currently only one case where that would be used, which is inside CMConcurrentMarkingTask::work().
14-04-2014