On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:05:16 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Daniel D. Daugherty has updated the pull request incrementally with one
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>> dholmes-ora - convert inner while loop to do-while loop in
>> unlink_deflated().
>
> src/hotspot/share/runtime/objectMonitor.cpp line 540:
>
>> 538: if (try_set_owner_from(NULL, DEFLATER_MARKER) != NULL) {
>> 539: // The owner field is no longer NULL so we lost the race since the
>> 540: // ObjectMonitor is now busy.
>
> So here would contentions be > 0? Can it be asserted? Doesn't need to be,
> the comment really helps to understand why the cas failed.
No we can't assert that (contentions > 0). The ownership
might have been taken by a fast path thread so it grabbed
ownership without having to update contentions and wait.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/642
