We must be in the Active state, not the Exclusive state when calling
this method since it may execute arbitrary Java code. This fixes an
assertion failure in makeNew.
If sun.java.command or sun.java.launcher are set, then the VM is being
loaded from e.g. libjvm.so, not as a stand-alone executable. This
commit allows libjvm.dylib to be used with OpenJDK's java command on OS
X.
This is necessary to ensure that new threads do not start while we're
shutting down (except for the ones that we start to run the shutdown
hooks), and that the shutdown hook threads can be safely started (it
is not safe to start threads from e.g. an idle state, and an assertion
will fail if we do).
Setting this property (e.g. -Davian.trace.port=5555) will cause the VM
to start an extra daemon thread which listens on the specified TCP
port for incoming connections and dumps stack traces for all running
threads to that socket. You can retrieve that dump using e.g. netcat:
nc localhost 5555
This is necessary to avoid name conflicts on various platforms. For
example, iOS has its own util.h, and Windows has a process.h. By
including our version as e.g. "avian/util.h", we avoid confusion with
the system version.
It now builds and links, but fails at runtime because
register_libcore_icu_ICU can't find the file it wants. We'll probably need to replace register_libcore_icu_ICU with a better-behaved version.
If we increment the value while we're still in IdleState, another
thread may try to GC before we are able to enter ActiveState, which
will lead to an assertion failure when the footprint function is
called.
Recent versions of IcedTea will not run unless libjvm.so exports this
symbol. The quick fix is to provide a stub which just always returns
-1 to indicate an error. I'll leave a proper implementation for when
we need to support an app that actually uses this function.
My earlier commit to allow detaching the main thread (1f1c3c4) seems
to have caused subtle stability problems
(e.g. https://groups.google.com/group/avian/msg/d2c797c0dcf925c3), so
for now we'll just ignore that operation, which leaks a bit of memory
but should be harmless otherwise.
When I originally implemented DetachCurrentThread, I assumed it didn't
make sense for the main thread to detach itself from the VM, and I was
concerned that allowing it might cause problems for any other threads
still attached. However, detaching the main thread is allowed by the
JNI spec as of Java 2, and OpenJDK's java command does this just
before calling DestroyJavaVM. Therefore, this commit ensures that the
VM doesn't abort if the main thread is detached.
Until now, the bootimage build hasn't supported using the Java
invocation API to create a VM, destroy it, and create another in the
same process. Ideally, we would be able to create multiple VMs
simultaneously without any interference between them. In fact, Avian
is designed to support this for the most part, but there are a few
places we use global, mutable state which prevent this from working.
Most notably, the bootimage is modified in-place at runtime, so the
best we can do without extensive changes is to clean up the bootimage
when the VM is destroyed so it's ready for later instances. Hence
this commit.
Ultimately, we can move towards a fully reentrant VM by making the
bootimage immutable, but this will require some care to avoid
performance regressions. Another challenge is our Posix signal
handlers, which currently rely on a global handle to the VM, since you
can't, to my knowledge, pass a context pointer when registering a
signal handler. Thread local variables won't necessarily help, since
a thread might attatch to more than one VM at a time.
