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Re: [equinox-dev] buddy classloading & deadlock


Here's a link to a page with IBM JREs:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/

John



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I'm using Sun JDK 1.5.0_06. You're probably talking about this bug ( http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4670071 ) which is still number 1 in Sun's bug top 25.

Is the IBM VM publicly available ?

Tom


On 8/3/06, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What vendor/version of the VM are you using?


There has been a long standing bug open against Sun on a similar issue.  It all boils down to the native VM locking the classloader before loading a class from it using the ClassLoader.loadClassInternal method.  In your stacktrace below this happens when the VM calls ClassLoader.loadClassInternal (DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClassInternal(String) line: 319).  The VM locks the classloader in native code before it ever calls into the ClassLoader.  This leaves us with no options, even if we override the loadClassInternal method to make it non-synchronized it will make no difference because the native code locks the ClassLoader no matter what the method signature is for loadClassInternal.  I have been told that Sun plans to fix this in a future release of the VM, it may be fixed in the latest 1.5 Sun VM.  The IBM VMs have fixed this issue, they will NOT lock the classloader before invoking it from the native VM code.


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Hi all,

I noticed that multithreading combined with buddy classloading can
produce some scary deadlocks. I had one in a project last week and
managed to recreate it in a toy example. Now I'm wondering if this is
just one of the dangers of breaking the classloading hierarchy or if
the framework could do something to avoid this ?

My toy example (also in attachment):

The main project has just one Application class:

public class Application implements IPlatformRunnable{
               
               public Object run(Object args) throws Exception {
                                new Activator();
                                return true;
               }
               
}


and the dependent project has an Activator

public class Activator implements BundleActivator {

public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
new Thread(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
               try {
                  Class.forName("main.Application");
              } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { }
}).start();

// let other thread run to induce deadlock                                  
try { Thread.sleep(100); } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
}

public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {}

}


The main project depends on dependent, and the dependent project has a
global buddy policy.


This causes the following deadlock:

Thread [main] (Suspended)                
               owns: DefaultClassLoader  (id=16)                
               waiting for: DefaultClassLoader  (id=15)                
               ClasspathManager.findLocalClassImpl(String, ClassLoadingStatsHook[]) line: 422                
               ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(String) line: 410                
               DefaultClassLoader.findLocalClass(String) line: 188                
               BundleLoader.findLocalClass(String) line: 339                
               SingleSourcePackage.loadClass(String) line: 37                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String, boolean) line: 388                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String) line: 352                
               DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 83                
               DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String) line: 251                
               DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClassInternal(String) line: 319                
               Application.run(Object) line: 11                
               PlatformActivator$1.run(Object) line: 78                
               EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(Object) line: 92                
               EclipseAppLauncher.start(Object) line: 68                
               EclipseStarter.run(Object) line: 400                
               EclipseStarter.run(String[], Runnable) line: 177                
               NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Method, Object, Object[]) line: not
available [native method]
               NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 39                
               DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Object, Object[]) line: 25                
               Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 585                
               Main.invokeFramework(String[], URL[]) line: 336                
               Main.basicRun(String[]) line: 280                
               Main.run(String[]) line: 977                
               Main.main(String[]) line: 952                

Thread [Thread-1] (Suspended)                
               owns: DefaultClassLoader  (id=15)                
               waiting for: DefaultClassLoader  (id=16)                
               ClasspathManager.findLocalClassImpl(String, ClassLoadingStatsHook[]) line: 422                
               ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(String) line: 410                
               DefaultClassLoader.findLocalClass(String) line: 188                
               BundleLoader.findLocalClass(String) line: 339                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String, boolean) line: 391                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String) line: 352                
               DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 83                
               DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String) line: 251                
               BundleLoader.loadClass(String) line: 276                
               BundleHost.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 227                
               BundleHost(AbstractBundle).loadClass(String) line: 1245                
               GlobalPolicy.loadClass(String) line: 39                
               PolicyHandler.doBuddyClassLoading(String) line: 138                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String, boolean) line: 402                
               BundleLoader.findClass(String) line: 352                
               DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(String, boolean) line: 83                
               DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClass(String) line: 251                
               DefaultClassLoader(ClassLoader).loadClassInternal(String) line: 319                
               Class<T>.forName0(String, boolean, ClassLoader) line: not available
[native method]
               Class<T>.forName(String) line: 164                
               Activator$1.run() line: 12                
               Thread.run() line: 595

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