In windows, you acquire a mutex by waiting on it using one of the wait
functions, one of them employed in the code in question. If
WaitForMultipleObjects succeeds and returns the index of the mutex, current
thread has ownership now.
It's also common to use multi wait functions where the event is a
cancelation token, e.g. manual reset event; this allows someone to cancel
waiting on mutex acquisition and return from the wait function. Presumably
that's the case here, but I'll let Aleksej confirm; just wanted to throw
this out there in the meantime :).
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On May 13, 2014 6:46 PM, David Holmes david.hol...@oracle.com wrote:
Hi Aleksej,
Thanks for the doc references regarding abandonment.
Let me rephrase my question. What is this logic trying to achieve by
waiting on both a mutex and an event? Do we already own the mutex when this
function is called?
David
On 13/05/2014 11:19 PM, Aleksej Efimov wrote:
David,
The Windows has a different terminology for mutex objects (much differs
from the POSIX one). This one link gave me some understanding of it [1].
Here is the MSDN [1] description of what abandoned mutex is:
If a thread terminates without releasing its ownership of a mutex
object, the mutex object is considered to be abandoned. A waiting thread
can acquire ownership of an abandoned mutex object, but the wait
function will return*WAIT_ABANDONED*to indicate that the mutex object is
abandoned. An abandoned mutex object indicates that an error has
occurred and that any shared resource being protected by the mutex
object is in an undefined state. If the thread proceeds as though the
mutex object had not been abandoned, it is no longer considered
abandoned after the thread releases its ownership. This restores normal
behavior if a handle to the mutex object is subsequently specified in a
wait function.
What does it mean to wait on mutex and ownership of the mutex object:
Any thread with a handle to a mutex object can use one of thewait
functions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms687069%28v=vs.85%29.aspxto
request ownership of the mutex object. If the mutex object is owned by
another thread, the wait function blocks the requesting thread until the
owning thread releases the mutex object using the*ReleaseMutex*
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms685066%28v=vs.85%29.aspxfunction.
How we can release mutex and wait on already owned mutex:
After a thread obtains ownership of a mutex, it can specify the same
mutex in repeated calls to the wait-functions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms687069%28v=vs.85%29.aspxwithout
blocking its execution. This prevents a thread from deadlocking itself
while waiting for a mutex that it already owns. To release its ownership
under such circumstances, the thread must call*ReleaseMutex*
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms685066%28v=vs.85%29.aspxonce
for each time that the mutex satisfied the conditions of a wait function.
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms684266(v=vs.85).aspx
-Aleksej
On 05/13/2014 04:00 PM, David Holmes wrote:
I don't understand this one at all. What is an abandoned mutex? For
that matter why does the code wait on a mutex and an event? Do we
already own the mutex? If so what does it mean to wait on it? If not
then how can we release it?
???
Thanks,
David
On 13/05/2014 8:57 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
This is debugger's shared memory transport so cc'ing serviceability-dev
as that is there this code is maintained.
Is there a test case or any outline of the conditions that cause this? I
think that would be useful to understand the issue further.
-Alan
On 13/05/2014 11:46, Aleksej Efimov wrote:
Hi,
Can I have a review for 8032901 bug [1] fix [2]. There is a possible
case when 'WaitForMultipleObjects' function can return the
WAIT_ABANDONED_0 [3] error value.
In such case it's better to release the mutex and return error value.
This will prevent other threads to be blocked on abandoned mutex.
Thank you,
Aleksej
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032901
[2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aefimov/8032901/9/webrev.00/
[3]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/
ms687025(v=vs.85).aspx
