Hi,
On 22.07.20 02:42, David Holmes wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I've looked at the incremental update and I am happy with that.
In the response to Serguei's review there were some comment updates and
new webrevs.
I also, prompted by you mentioning it, took a deeper look at the
biased-locking code to ensure it also keeps the MonitorInfo's
thread-confined, and to see whether the handshake versions could
themselves be susceptible to interference from safepoints (which they
can't as far as I can determine). And that all seems fine.
Thanks for looking at this again in more detail. I couldn't spot
problems either, but this is not code I am proficient with.
As per offline discussions I know that there has been an alternate
proposal for a completely localized fix in the stackwalker code that
simply retrieves the list of monitors, uses the length to create the
array, then re-retrieves the list of monitors to populate the array (the
length of which can't change as we are dealing with the current thread).
My only concern with that approach is the performance impact if we have
deep stacks with lots of monitors. There is a microbenchmark for
StackWalker in the repo:
open/test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/StackWalkBench.java
but it doesn't test anything to do with monitor usage.
Ultimately I am good with either change, as long as it's being fixed. I
initially thought about this solution too, but had the same concerns.
Stacks can be really deep particularly with some frameworks (maybe not
fully materialized) but idk the actual impact of doing the walk twice.
Potentially you could have different fixes for different versions.
Thanks,
Thomas
