On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:34:51 GMT, Dmitry Chuyko <dchu...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a tiny fix in the ForkJoinPool. Since JDK 9 (JDK-8134852 [1]) 
> in one case when TC subfield in ctl field is decremented, the applied masking 
> (UMASK, upper bits) may not preserve neighbor RC subfield sometimes. In JDKs 
> prior to 19 FJP may stop executing tasks, which requires a long running 
> application restart [2]. Since 19 it is even harder to reproduce because of 
> the separate parallelism field.
> 
> The fix is to replace 'UMASK & (c - TC_UNIT)'  with '(c & RC_MASK) | ((c - 
> TC_UNIT)  & TC_MASK)' which preserves the RC part of the compareAndSetCtl() 
> candidate argument. On 17u and 11u that repairs known tests and applications. 
> This PR is for the mainline, and I intend to backport it to 21u, 17u and 11u.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8134852
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8330017

The issue looks valid to me and the fix looks good. Would be nice if another 
reviewer can double check.

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Marked as reviewed by liach (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24034#pullrequestreview-2691756966

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