> This test iterates an array of ThreadInfos in a few places (e.g. in the 
> method doCheck()), and needs to tolerate and ignore nulls, in case a thread 
> finishes and the test hits an NPE.
> 
> There are other calls like "TM.getThreadInfo(tid).getLockName()" which might 
> often be risky, but if the threads are blocked as they are here, they can't 
> be terminating, so this usage is safe.
> 
> 
> The test has additional problems when started in a virtual thread.  
> ThreadMXBean.getThreadInfo() methods only return a ThreadInfo for platform 
> threads.  The test needs to avoid some checks if mainThread is virtual.
> 
> In assertNoLock, it needs to not object to a thread holding a lock on a 
> VirtualThread object is not relevant.
> Also the loop in doChecks which follows a chain of locks... This needs to 
> recognise that ForkJoinPool thead is not worth pursuing.  It's not one of the 
> very narrow set of threads this test cares about.
> 
> Despite these exclusions, the test does some reasonable verification work 
> when MainThread is virtual.  This test historically cam in with a general 
> "JVM monitoring and management API" change, it is not testing a particular 
> fix.
> 
> 
> There's a failure condition in doCheck() which will not make the test fail: 
> if it logs "TEST FAILED" in its final for loop, there is no failure.  Make 
> the loop count the failures, and throw if there are any.
> 
> Also, while looking into this...  The variable names in some methods are 
> confusing. In checkBlockedObject(), let's use "threadName" rather than 
> "result" if we are finding a thread name, and let's not reuse the same result 
> variable for a lockName later in the method.
> 
> The logs from this test are hard to read and verify, I find it better if the 
> lock objects OBJB and OBJC are of classes other than Object, so you get to 
> read, e.g.:
> LockAThread blocked on Locks$ObjectB@4691fdfd
> (ObjectB, not just Object).

Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Comment update

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Changes:
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