Please review a change [1] that fixes a deadlock issue [2] in sun.tools.jconsole.Worker class.
There is no need in guarding "stopped" flag by a lock. The fix removes this excessive locking and instead makes the flag volatile. Mach5 tier1-tier3 tests passed. [1] Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dtitov/8236873/webrev.01/ [2] Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8236873 Best regards, Daniil