On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 13:53:39 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> -Djdk.tracePinnedThreads is a debugging option that dates from early 
> development in the loom repo to identify pinned threads. It has several 
> issues and this tracing option will eventually be removed (use the JFR events 
> instead). Several hangs have been reported when running with the system 
> property set. The "hangs" stem from the onPinned callback executing while the 
> virtual thread is in a transition state (typically parking). If the virtual 
> parks while printing the stack trace then it works like a nested park where 
> the thread state is never restored. Contention on the System.out can also 
> lead to deadlock when there are platform and pinned virtual threads printing 
> to System.out around the same time.
> 
> This PR brings over the changes from the loom repo to avoid these hangs. The 
> changes mean the stack trace is only printed to System.out when the 
> PrintStream lock can be acquired without blocking. It also restores the 
> thread state after printing. An alternative to not printing traces would of 
> course be to queue the traces so they are printed by another thread but this 
> is just adding complexity for a debugging option that we want to go away.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: faa9c690
Author:    Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/faa9c6909dda635eb008b9dada6e06fca47c17d6
Stats:     128 lines in 3 files changed: 100 ins; 12 del; 16 mod

8322846: Running with -Djdk.tracePinnedThreads set can hang

Reviewed-by: jpai

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17221

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