Hi All
This is a request to backport a jdk8 fix into jdk7u4.
CR: 7118809: rcache deadlock
Weblink: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7118809
Description:
CacheTable.put() operates on ReplayCache inside it, and
ReplayCache.put() operates on CacheTable containing it, and both methods
are synchronized and using thread-safe Hashtable. Therefore there might
be a deadlock when both methods are calling into the other one in two
threads at the same time.
The fix is to remove the "call-up" side so that ReplayCache will not
call CacheTable methods. It's already included in jdk8 as:
Mon Jan 16 10:10:56 2012 +0800
changeset 4896: e8e08d46cc37
Reviewed-by: valeriep
The patch for jdk7u4 is a little different at
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/7118809/7u4/webrev.00/
and it has been reviewed by Valerie Peng (valeriep).
I intend to push it to
ssh://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev-gate/jdk
Thanks
Weijun
