Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8229160
Preliminary webrev (still has rough edges):
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8229160/webrev.prelim/
Background:
We've had this comment for a long time:
// The raw monitor subsystem is entirely distinct from normal
// java-synchronization or jni-synchronization. raw monitors are not
// associated with objects. They can be implemented in any manner
// that makes sense. The original implementors decided to piggy-back
// the raw-monitor implementation on the existing Java objectMonitor
mechanism.
// This flaw needs to fixed. We should reimplement raw monitors as
sui-generis.
// Specifically, we should not implement raw monitors via java monitors.
// Time permitting, we should disentangle and deconvolve the two
implementations
// and move the resulting raw monitor implementation over to the JVMTI
directories.
// Ideally, the raw monitor implementation would be built on top of
// park-unpark and nothing else.
This is an attempt to do that disentangling so that we can then consider
changes to ObjectMonitor without having to worry about JvmtiRawMonitors.
But rather than building on low-level park/unpark (which would require
the same manual queue management and much of the same complex code as
exists in ObjectMonitor) I decided to try and do this on top of
PlatformMonitor.
The reason this is just a RFC rather than RFR is that I overlooked a
non-trivial aspect of JvmtiRawMonitors: like Java monitors (as
implemented by ObjectMonitor) they interact with the Thread.interrupt
mechanism. This is not clearly stated in the JVM TI specification [1]
but only in passing by the possible errors for RawMonitorWait:
JVMTI_ERROR_INTERRUPT Wait was interrupted, try again
As I explain in the bug report there is no way to build in proper
interrupt support using PlatformMonitor as there is no way we can
"interrupt" the low-level pthread_cond_wait. But we can approximate it.
What I've done in this preliminary version is just check interrupt state
before and after the actual "wait" but we won't get woken by the
interrupt once we have actually blocked. Alternatively we could use a
periodic polling approach and wakeup every Nms to check for interruption.
The only use of JvmtiRawMonitors in the JDK libraries (JDWP) is not
affected by this choice as that code ignores the interrupt until the
real action it was waiting for has occurred. The interrupt is then
reposted later.
But more generally there could be users of JvmtiRawMonitors that
expect/require that RawMonitorWait is responsive to Thread.interrupt in
a manner similar to Object.wait. And if any of them are reading this
then I'd like to know - hence this RFC :)
FYI testing to date:
- tiers 1 -3 all platforms
- hotspot: serviceability/jvmti
/jdwp
vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti
/jdwp
- JDK: com/sun/jdi
Comments/opinions appreciated.
Thanks,
David
[1]
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/specs/jvmti.html#RawMonitorWait
