On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:55:29 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`.
>> 
>> UPDATE: we are now employing a much simpler solution.
>> 
>> There is no regression test as this has only been seen in long running 
>> stress tests.
>> 
>> Testing:
>>    -tiers 1-6
>
> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Exapnd comment

Looks good.
Thanks, Richard.

A deadlock can still occur if the debugger suspends the thread in the critical 
region, e.g. to read a local variable. After 
[JDK-8373839](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8373839) this shouldn't be 
possible anymore.

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Marked as reviewed by rrich (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779#pullrequestreview-3598687723
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28779#issuecomment-3675155037

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