On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:38:28 GMT, Leonid Mesnik <lmes...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The crash happens because nmethod might become a zombie before it is 
>> enqueued in JvmtiDeferredEventQueue or after it is dequeued from it. The 
>> crash is reproduced by serviceability/jvmti/CompiledMethodLoad/Zombie.java. 
>> However, it takes ~3K  runs to hit it. I verified the fix by running this 
>> test >100K on each platform. Also, I verified that protecting in 'void 
>> JvmtiDeferredEventQueue::post(JvmtiEnv* env)' is not enough.
>
> Leonid Mesnik has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   post updated.

Looks good!

src/hotspot/share/prims/jvmtiImpl.cpp line 968:

> 966:   while (_queue_head != NULL) {
> 967:     _queue_head->event().post_compiled_method_load_event(env);
> 968:     dequeue();

Good find!  So we _can_ zombie the nmethod after we take it off the list.  
Makes a lot of sense.  Thank you for your perseverance in tracking this down!

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4602

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