On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 10:13:39 GMT, Anton Kozlov <akoz...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The change adds W^X transition in RawMonitor family of functions, fixing the 
>> crash. RawMonitor functions are treated specially, so W^X transition is not 
>> inserted automatically. A better fix would be in .xml description for 
>> entries generation, but for now it is too risky. I hope to get this fixed in 
>> 17 in the simplest way and do re-work in the 18. This change is still 100% 
>> correct for the reported bug.
>> 
>> Verified by: 
>> 
>> jtreg -vmoption:-XX:+AssertWXAtThreadSync 
>> test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti/scenarios/bcinstr/BI04/bi04t002
>
> Anton Kozlov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Subset of RawMonitor; comments added

OK. We really need to have a think about how W^X should be handled: this 
temporal coupling is a code smell, and will be be a reliability problem until 
we do something better.

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Marked as reviewed by aph (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/244

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