On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 01:31:09 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Semaphore seems simpler/cleaner and ready to use.
>
> It's such a rare race and unusual condition that we could execute more Java
> code, that I started out with just a shared bit. Then David suggested a
> semaphore that obeys the safepoint protocol, which seems a lot better. I've
> literally skimmed over OSThreadWaitState. It looks like
> Semaphore::wait_with_a_safepoint_check() uses it. I still don't know why it
> exists:
>
>
> // Note: the ThreadState is legacy code and is not correctly implemented.
> // Uses of ThreadState need to be replaced by the state in the JavaThread.
>
> enum ThreadState {
>
>
> Does a PlatformMutex handle priority-inheritance? It still feels like it
> would be overkill for this usage. I hope this RecursiveLocker does not
> become more widely used, where we would have to replace the simple
> implementation with something more difficult. We should discourage further
> use when possible.
Thanks for your last comment because I was worried there's a lot of other code
I should know about.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17739#discussion_r1516129405
