On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:49:11 GMT, Kevin Walls <kev...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> I think we need a HiddenJavaThread class, and "visibility" cannot just be a 
> boolean field in JavaThread, because virtualConstructor.addMapping wants a 
> mapping to a class that will already know whether it's hidden.
> 
As I just learned from Vladimir's CodeBlob work in #23533, we could actually do 
without the mapping and instead query a field in the instance to determine 
which wrapper class to use for it. The problem is that "hidden" is not a field, 
it is a method, although probably could be changed to a field, which might also 
help to implement [JDK-8348317](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8348317). 
However, implementing that approach still basically requires all the changes in 
this PR, so I think it is still best to get this one in place and maybe file a 
followup CR for further improvement (although honestly I don't see myself 
working on it right away).

> In calling it HiddenJavaThread we might be labelling threads "JavaThread" 
> when they don't run Java, but those I looked at are derived from JavaThread 
> in native hotspot so it must be the right name.

Yeah, all these threads are hospot JavaThread instances. The naming 
inconsistency really begins there. This PR actually cleans it up by getting rid 
of the SA isJavaThread(), which was different then the hotspot isJavaThread().

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23456#issuecomment-2648867520

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