On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:35:00 GMT, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:

> JDK-8364343 upgraded the virtual thread transition management to be 
> independent of JVMTI. We can update java_lang_Thread::async_get_stack_trace 
> to use it and remove the suspend + retry code from Thread.getStackTrace.
> 
> A summary of the changes:
> 
> - java_lang_Thread::async_get_stack_trace is changed to use the new handshake 
> op so it can be called to get the stack trace of a started thread in any state
> - Thread::getStackTrace is changed to use async_get_stack_trace for all cases
> - The SUSPENDED substate in VirtualThread is removed
> - JVM_CreateThreadSnapshot is changed to be usable when JVMTI is not compiled 
> in
> - ThreadSnapshotFactory::get_thread_snapshot is changed to not upcall to 
> StackTraceElement to complete the init of the stack trace
> 
> The changes mean that Thread::getStackTrace may be slower when sampling a 
> virtual thread in transition. This case should be rare, and it isn't really a 
> performance critical op anyway. I prototyped use a spin loop and an 
> increasing wait time in MountUnmountDisabler::disable_transition_for_one to 
> avoid the wait(10) but decided to leave it out for now. Future work may 
> examine this issue as there may be other cases (with JVMTI) that would 
> benefit from avoiding the wait.
> 
> A future PR might propose to change Thread.getStackTrace to use 
> ThreadSnapshot and allow java_lang_Thread::async_get_stack_trace be removed. 
> This requires more extensive changes to ThreadSnapshotFactory to reduce 
> overhead when only the stack trace is required.
> 
> Testing: tier1-5.  The changes has been already been tested in the loom repo 
> for a few months.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ac6e8d48
Author:    Alan Bateman <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/ac6e8d481a20b40e136263c0e0c075bd138677ab
Stats:     669 lines in 21 files changed: 445 ins; 168 del; 56 mod

8376568: Change Thread::getStackTrace to use handshake op for all cases

Reviewed-by: pchilanomate, sspitsyn

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29461

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