On 09/09/2015 08:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 09/09/2015 02:13 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:How would you hook into the safepoint to perform the unmapping? You'd have to wait for all threads to arrive at safepoints, wouldn't you?Yes. That happens in the VM already, e.g. when we need to revoke the bias of a lock. It's a well-established mechanism.
Could you extend the technique to other native resources as well? -- - DML