On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:36:34 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/Bits.java line 146:
>>
>>> 144: }
>>> 145:
>>> 146: if (canary == null || canary.isDead()) {
>>
>> If we're keeping Reference.waitForPendingReferences, why not continue to use
>> it, rather than introducing
>> the canary as a new, ad hoc, reference processing progress detector?
>
> @kimbarrett Do you have a change coming to allow waitForPendingReferences be
> used by WB? I assume this will at least add a comment to the method (or
> whatever it changes to) to make it clear that it's for testing.
> @AlanBateman I've not done any work on JDK-8305186. There has also been
> discussion about making that function non-private or even public (though with
> concerns about specification difficulty) for use in places like this.
Exposing this in this API might be scary, I think would need a lot of thinking
to be confident it doesn't create an attractive nuisance. Keeping it for WB
testing is okay of course.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22165#discussion_r1935953253
