The debug agent sets a breakpoint in Thread.resume() so it can prevent the debugger from suspending threads while in the resume call:
/* * Track the resuming thread by marking it as being within * a resume and by setting up for notification on * a frame pop or exception. We won't allow the debugger * to suspend threads while any thread is within a * call to resume. This (along with the block below) * ensures that when the debugger * suspends a thread it will remain suspended. */ trackAppResume(resumer); Now that Thread.resume() is unsupported and just throws UnsupportedOperationException, all debug agent code related to this support can be removed. It's at least a couple of hundred lines of code, and with a fair amount of confusing synchronization. It will be nice to see it go. Also, there is a little bit of code to deal with the app calling Thread.suspend(). I'm a bit unsure of it's removal, because I'm not certain if we also need to consider another JVMTI agent doing a suspend. However, we don't seem to defend against another JVMTI agent resuming a thread, so maybe the debug agent is just not expected to work if another JVMTI agent interferes. I would appreciate some insight on this possibility. I've called out this code in the inlined review comments. ------------- Commit messages: - Get rid of Thread.resume() and Thread.suspend() support Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10922/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10922&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296089 Stats: 352 lines in 3 files changed: 1 ins; 346 del; 5 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10922.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10922/head:pull/10922 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10922