On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:20:11 GMT, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

> As discussed in JBS the deadlock occurs when the call to 
> `ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical` performs the transition from native to VM, 
> and in the process checks for special runtime exit conditions - which 
> includes the `obj_deopt_suspend` request. The simple solution is to define a 
> custom JNI ENTRY with custom `ThreadInVMfromNative` that elides the exit 
> check.
> 
> The change is limited to `ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical` and 
> `ReleaseStringCritical`.
> 
> There is no regression test as this has only been seen in long running stress 
> tests.
> 
> Testing:
>    -tiers 1-6

@dholmes-ora I do think that also _entering_ a critical region is problematic 
if it is nested.
I'm currently testing with 
https://github.com/reinrich/jdk/commit/d7ce2ccb2150c92929b8d9140b4709833d188474 
where a thread doesn't suspend for EscapeBarriers while in a critical region.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779#issuecomment-3656372702

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