hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
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+/*
+ * Copyright 1997-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
+ * have any questions.
+ *
+ */
+
+# include "incls/_precompiled.incl"
+# include "incls/_thread.cpp.incl"
+
+#ifdef DTRACE_ENABLED
+
+// Only bother with this argument setup if dtrace is available
+
+HS_DTRACE_PROBE_DECL(hotspot, vm__init__begin);
+HS_DTRACE_PROBE_DECL(hotspot, vm__init__end);
+HS_DTRACE_PROBE_DECL5(hotspot, thread__start, char*, intptr_t,
+  intptr_t, intptr_t, bool);
+HS_DTRACE_PROBE_DECL5(hotspot, thread__stop, char*, intptr_t,
+  intptr_t, intptr_t, bool);
+
+#define DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(probe, javathread)                             \
+  {                                                                        \
+    ResourceMark rm(this);                                                 \
+    int len = 0;                                                           \
+    const char* name = (javathread)->get_thread_name();                    \
+    len = strlen(name);                                                    \
+    HS_DTRACE_PROBE5(hotspot, thread__##probe,                             \
+      name, len,                                                           \
+      java_lang_Thread::thread_id((javathread)->threadObj()),              \
+      (javathread)->osthread()->thread_id(),                               \
+      java_lang_Thread::is_daemon((javathread)->threadObj()));             \
+  }
+
+#else //  ndef DTRACE_ENABLED
+
+#define DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(probe, javathread)
+
+#endif // ndef DTRACE_ENABLED
+
+// Class hierarchy
+// - Thread
+//   - VMThread
+//   - WatcherThread
+//   - ConcurrentMarkSweepThread
+//   - JavaThread
+//     - CompilerThread
+
+// ======= Thread ========
+
+// Support for forcing alignment of thread objects for biased locking
+void* Thread::operator new(size_t size) {
+  if (UseBiasedLocking) {
+    const int alignment = markOopDesc::biased_lock_alignment;
+    size_t aligned_size = size + (alignment - sizeof(intptr_t));
+    void* real_malloc_addr = CHeapObj::operator new(aligned_size);
+    void* aligned_addr     = (void*) align_size_up((intptr_t) real_malloc_addr, alignment);
+    assert(((uintptr_t) aligned_addr + (uintptr_t) size) <=
+           ((uintptr_t) real_malloc_addr + (uintptr_t) aligned_size),
+           "JavaThread alignment code overflowed allocated storage");
+    if (TraceBiasedLocking) {
+      if (aligned_addr != real_malloc_addr)
+        tty->print_cr("Aligned thread " INTPTR_FORMAT " to " INTPTR_FORMAT,
+                      real_malloc_addr, aligned_addr);
+    }
+    ((Thread*) aligned_addr)->_real_malloc_address = real_malloc_addr;
+    return aligned_addr;
+  } else {
+    return CHeapObj::operator new(size);
+  }
+}
+
+void Thread::operator delete(void* p) {
+  if (UseBiasedLocking) {
+    void* real_malloc_addr = ((Thread*) p)->_real_malloc_address;
+    CHeapObj::operator delete(real_malloc_addr);
+  } else {
+    CHeapObj::operator delete(p);
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Base class for all threads: VMThread, WatcherThread, ConcurrentMarkSweepThread,
+// JavaThread
+
+
+Thread::Thread() {
+  // stack
+  _stack_base   = NULL;
+  _stack_size   = 0;
+  _self_raw_id  = 0;
+  _lgrp_id      = -1;
+  _osthread     = NULL;
+
+  // allocated data structures
+  set_resource_area(new ResourceArea());
+  set_handle_area(new HandleArea(NULL));
+  set_active_handles(NULL);
+  set_free_handle_block(NULL);
+  set_last_handle_mark(NULL);
+  set_osthread(NULL);
+
+  // This initial value ==> never claimed.
+  _oops_do_parity = 0;
+
+  // the handle mark links itself to last_handle_mark
+  new HandleMark(this);
+
+  // plain initialization
+  debug_only(_owned_locks = NULL;)
+  debug_only(_allow_allocation_count = 0;)
+  NOT_PRODUCT(_allow_safepoint_count = 0;)
+  CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS_ONLY(_gc_locked_out_count = 0;)
+  _highest_lock = NULL;
+  _jvmti_env_iteration_count = 0;
+  _vm_operation_started_count = 0;
+  _vm_operation_completed_count = 0;
+  _current_pending_monitor = NULL;
+  _current_pending_monitor_is_from_java = true;
+  _current_waiting_monitor = NULL;
+  _num_nested_signal = 0;
+  omFreeList = NULL ;
+  omFreeCount = 0 ;
+  omFreeProvision = 32 ;
+
+  _SR_lock = new Monitor(Mutex::suspend_resume, "SR_lock", true);
+  _suspend_flags = 0;
+
+  // thread-specific hashCode stream generator state - Marsaglia shift-xor form
+  _hashStateX = os::random() ;
+  _hashStateY = 842502087 ;
+  _hashStateZ = 0x8767 ;    // (int)(3579807591LL & 0xffff) ;
+  _hashStateW = 273326509 ;
+
+  _OnTrap   = 0 ;
+  _schedctl = NULL ;
+  _Stalled  = 0 ;
+  _TypeTag  = 0x2BAD ;
+
+  // Many of the following fields are effectively final - immutable
+  // Note that nascent threads can't use the Native Monitor-Mutex
+  // construct until the _MutexEvent is initialized ...
+  // CONSIDER: instead of using a fixed set of purpose-dedicated ParkEvents
+  // we might instead use a stack of ParkEvents that we could provision on-demand.
+  // The stack would act as a cache to avoid calls to ParkEvent::Allocate()
+  // and ::Release()
+  _ParkEvent   = ParkEvent::Allocate (this) ;
+  _SleepEvent  = ParkEvent::Allocate (this) ;
+  _MutexEvent  = ParkEvent::Allocate (this) ;
+  _MuxEvent    = ParkEvent::Allocate (this) ;
+
+#ifdef CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS
+  if (CheckUnhandledOops) {
+    _unhandled_oops = new UnhandledOops(this);
+  }
+#endif // CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS
+#ifdef ASSERT
+  if (UseBiasedLocking) {
+    assert((((uintptr_t) this) & (markOopDesc::biased_lock_alignment - 1)) == 0, "forced alignment of thread object failed");
+    assert(this == _real_malloc_address ||
+           this == (void*) align_size_up((intptr_t) _real_malloc_address, markOopDesc::biased_lock_alignment),
+           "bug in forced alignment of thread objects");
+  }
+#endif /* ASSERT */
+}
+
+void Thread::initialize_thread_local_storage() {
+  // Note: Make sure this method only calls
+  // non-blocking operations. Otherwise, it might not work
+  // with the thread-startup/safepoint interaction.
+
+  // During Java thread startup, safepoint code should allow this
+  // method to complete because it may need to allocate memory to
+  // store information for the new thread.
+
+  // initialize structure dependent on thread local storage
+  ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(this);
+
+  // set up any platform-specific state.
+  os::initialize_thread();
+
+}
+
+void Thread::record_stack_base_and_size() {
+  set_stack_base(os::current_stack_base());
+  set_stack_size(os::current_stack_size());
+}
+
+
+Thread::~Thread() {
+  // Reclaim the objectmonitors from the omFreeList of the moribund thread.
+  ObjectSynchronizer::omFlush (this) ;
+
+  // deallocate data structures
+  delete resource_area();
+  // since the handle marks are using the handle area, we have to deallocated the root
+  // handle mark before deallocating the thread's handle area,
+  assert(last_handle_mark() != NULL, "check we have an element");
+  delete last_handle_mark();
+  assert(last_handle_mark() == NULL, "check we have reached the end");
+
+  // It's possible we can encounter a null _ParkEvent, etc., in stillborn threads.
+  // We NULL out the fields for good hygiene.
+  ParkEvent::Release (_ParkEvent)   ; _ParkEvent   = NULL ;
+  ParkEvent::Release (_SleepEvent)  ; _SleepEvent  = NULL ;
+  ParkEvent::Release (_MutexEvent)  ; _MutexEvent  = NULL ;
+  ParkEvent::Release (_MuxEvent)    ; _MuxEvent    = NULL ;
+
+  delete handle_area();
+
+  // osthread() can be NULL, if creation of thread failed.
+  if (osthread() != NULL) os::free_thread(osthread());
+
+  delete _SR_lock;
+
+  // clear thread local storage if the Thread is deleting itself
+  if (this == Thread::current()) {
+    ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL);
+  } else {
+    // In the case where we're not the current thread, invalidate all the
+    // caches in case some code tries to get the current thread or the
+    // thread that was destroyed, and gets stale information.
+    ThreadLocalStorage::invalidate_all();
+  }
+  CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS_ONLY(if (CheckUnhandledOops) delete unhandled_oops();)
+}
+
+// NOTE: dummy function for assertion purpose.
+void Thread::run() {
+  ShouldNotReachHere();
+}
+
+#ifdef ASSERT
+// Private method to check for dangling thread pointer
+void check_for_dangling_thread_pointer(Thread *thread) {
+ assert(!thread->is_Java_thread() || Thread::current() == thread || Threads_lock->owned_by_self(),
+         "possibility of dangling Thread pointer");
+}
+#endif
+
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+// Tracing method for basic thread operations
+void Thread::trace(const char* msg, const Thread* const thread) {
+  if (!TraceThreadEvents) return;
+  ResourceMark rm;
+  ThreadCritical tc;
+  const char *name = "non-Java thread";
+  int prio = -1;
+  if (thread->is_Java_thread()
+      && !thread->is_Compiler_thread()) {
+    // The Threads_lock must be held to get information about
+    // this thread but may not be in some situations when
+    // tracing  thread events.
+    bool release_Threads_lock = false;
+    if (!Threads_lock->owned_by_self()) {
+      Threads_lock->lock();
+      release_Threads_lock = true;
+    }
+    JavaThread* jt = (JavaThread *)thread;
+    name = (char *)jt->get_thread_name();
+    oop thread_oop = jt->threadObj();
+    if (thread_oop != NULL) {
+      prio = java_lang_Thread::priority(thread_oop);
+    }
+    if (release_Threads_lock) {
+      Threads_lock->unlock();
+    }
+  }
+  tty->print_cr("Thread::%s " INTPTR_FORMAT " [%lx] %s (prio: %d)", msg, thread, thread->osthread()->thread_id(), name, prio);
+}
+#endif
+
+
+ThreadPriority Thread::get_priority(const Thread* const thread) {
+  trace("get priority", thread);
+  ThreadPriority priority;
+  // Can return an error!
+  (void)os::get_priority(thread, priority);
+  assert(MinPriority <= priority && priority <= MaxPriority, "non-Java priority found");
+  return priority;
+}
+
+void Thread::set_priority(Thread* thread, ThreadPriority priority) {
+  trace("set priority", thread);
+  debug_only(check_for_dangling_thread_pointer(thread);)
+  // Can return an error!
+  (void)os::set_priority(thread, priority);
+}
+
+
+void Thread::start(Thread* thread) {
+  trace("start", thread);
+  // Start is different from resume in that its safety is guaranteed by context or
+  // being called from a Java method synchronized on the Thread object.
+  if (!DisableStartThread) {
+    if (thread->is_Java_thread()) {
+      // Initialize the thread state to RUNNABLE before starting this thread.
+      // Can not set it after the thread started because we do not know the
+      // exact thread state at that time. It could be in MONITOR_WAIT or
+      // in SLEEPING or some other state.
+      java_lang_Thread::set_thread_status(((JavaThread*)thread)->threadObj(),
+                                          java_lang_Thread::RUNNABLE);
+    }
+    os::start_thread(thread);
+  }
+}
+
+// Enqueue a VM_Operation to do the job for us - sometime later
+void Thread::send_async_exception(oop java_thread, oop java_throwable) {
+  VM_ThreadStop* vm_stop = new VM_ThreadStop(java_thread, java_throwable);
+  VMThread::execute(vm_stop);
+}
+
+
+//
+// Check if an external suspend request has completed (or has been
+// cancelled). Returns true if the thread is externally suspended and
+// false otherwise.
+//
+// The bits parameter returns information about the code path through
+// the routine. Useful for debugging:
+//
+// set in is_ext_suspend_completed():
+// 0x00000001 - routine was entered
+// 0x00000010 - routine return false at end
+// 0x00000100 - thread exited (return false)
+// 0x00000200 - suspend request cancelled (return false)
+// 0x00000400 - thread suspended (return true)
+// 0x00001000 - thread is in a suspend equivalent state (return true)
+// 0x00002000 - thread is native and walkable (return true)
+// 0x00004000 - thread is native_trans and walkable (needed retry)
+//
+// set in wait_for_ext_suspend_completion():
+// 0x00010000 - routine was entered
+// 0x00020000 - suspend request cancelled before loop (return false)
+// 0x00040000 - thread suspended before loop (return true)
+// 0x00080000 - suspend request cancelled in loop (return false)
+// 0x00100000 - thread suspended in loop (return true)
+// 0x00200000 - suspend not completed during retry loop (return false)
+//
+
+// Helper class for tracing suspend wait debug bits.
+//
+// 0x00000100 indicates that the target thread exited before it could
+// self-suspend which is not a wait failure. 0x00000200, 0x00020000 and
+// 0x00080000 each indicate a cancelled suspend request so they don't
+// count as wait failures either.
+#define DEBUG_FALSE_BITS (0x00000010 | 0x00200000)
+
+class TraceSuspendDebugBits : public StackObj {
+ private:
+  JavaThread * jt;
+  bool         is_wait;
+  bool         called_by_wait;  // meaningful when !is_wait
+  uint32_t *   bits;
+
+ public:
+  TraceSuspendDebugBits(JavaThread *_jt, bool _is_wait, bool _called_by_wait,
+                        uint32_t *_bits) {
+    jt             = _jt;
+    is_wait        = _is_wait;
+    called_by_wait = _called_by_wait;
+    bits           = _bits;
+  }
+
+  ~TraceSuspendDebugBits() {
+    if (!is_wait) {
+#if 1
+      // By default, don't trace bits for is_ext_suspend_completed() calls.
+      // That trace is very chatty.
+      return;
+#else
+      if (!called_by_wait) {
+        // If tracing for is_ext_suspend_completed() is enabled, then only
+        // trace calls to it from wait_for_ext_suspend_completion()
+        return;
+      }
+#endif
+    }
+
+    if (AssertOnSuspendWaitFailure || TraceSuspendWaitFailures) {
+      if (bits != NULL && (*bits & DEBUG_FALSE_BITS) != 0) {
+        MutexLocker ml(Threads_lock);  // needed for get_thread_name()
+        ResourceMark rm;
+
+        tty->print_cr(
+            "Failed wait_for_ext_suspend_completion(thread=%s, debug_bits=%x)",
+            jt->get_thread_name(), *bits);
+
+        guarantee(!AssertOnSuspendWaitFailure, "external suspend wait failed");
+      }
+    }
+  }
+};
+#undef DEBUG_FALSE_BITS
+
+
+bool JavaThread::is_ext_suspend_completed(bool called_by_wait, int delay, uint32_t *bits) {
+  TraceSuspendDebugBits tsdb(this, false /* !is_wait */, called_by_wait, bits);
+
+  bool did_trans_retry = false;  // only do thread_in_native_trans retry once
+  bool do_trans_retry;           // flag to force the retry
+
+  *bits |= 0x00000001;
+
+  do {
+    do_trans_retry = false;
+
+    if (is_exiting()) {
+      // Thread is in the process of exiting. This is always checked
+      // first to reduce the risk of dereferencing a freed JavaThread.
+      *bits |= 0x00000100;
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (!is_external_suspend()) {
+      // Suspend request is cancelled. This is always checked before
+      // is_ext_suspended() to reduce the risk of a rogue resume
+      // confusing the thread that made the suspend request.
+      *bits |= 0x00000200;
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (is_ext_suspended()) {
+      // thread is suspended
+      *bits |= 0x00000400;
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    // Now that we no longer do hard suspends of threads running
+    // native code, the target thread can be changing thread state
+    // while we are in this routine:
+    //
+    //   _thread_in_native -> _thread_in_native_trans -> _thread_blocked
+    //
+    // We save a copy of the thread state as observed at this moment
+    // and make our decision about suspend completeness based on the
+    // copy. This closes the race where the thread state is seen as
+    // _thread_in_native_trans in the if-thread_blocked check, but is
+    // seen as _thread_blocked in if-thread_in_native_trans check.
+    JavaThreadState save_state = thread_state();
+
+    if (save_state == _thread_blocked && is_suspend_equivalent()) {
+      // If the thread's state is _thread_blocked and this blocking
+      // condition is known to be equivalent to a suspend, then we can
+      // consider the thread to be externally suspended. This means that
+      // the code that sets _thread_blocked has been modified to do
+      // self-suspension if the blocking condition releases. We also
+      // used to check for CONDVAR_WAIT here, but that is now covered by
+      // the _thread_blocked with self-suspension check.
+      //
+      // Return true since we wouldn't be here unless there was still an
+      // external suspend request.
+      *bits |= 0x00001000;
+      return true;
+    } else if (save_state == _thread_in_native && frame_anchor()->walkable()) {
+      // Threads running native code will self-suspend on native==>VM/Java
+      // transitions. If its stack is walkable (should always be the case
+      // unless this function is called before the actual java_suspend()
+      // call), then the wait is done.
+      *bits |= 0x00002000;
+      return true;
+    } else if (!called_by_wait && !did_trans_retry &&
+               save_state == _thread_in_native_trans &&
+               frame_anchor()->walkable()) {
+      // The thread is transitioning from thread_in_native to another
+      // thread state. check_safepoint_and_suspend_for_native_trans()
+      // will force the thread to self-suspend. If it hasn't gotten
+      // there yet we may have caught the thread in-between the native
+      // code check above and the self-suspend. Lucky us. If we were
+      // called by wait_for_ext_suspend_completion(), then it
+      // will be doing the retries so we don't have to.
+      //
+      // Since we use the saved thread state in the if-statement above,
+      // there is a chance that the thread has already transitioned to
+      // _thread_blocked by the time we get here. In that case, we will
+      // make a single unnecessary pass through the logic below. This
+      // doesn't hurt anything since we still do the trans retry.
+
+      *bits |= 0x00004000;
+
+      // Once the thread leaves thread_in_native_trans for another
+      // thread state, we break out of this retry loop. We shouldn't
+      // need this flag to prevent us from getting back here, but
+      // sometimes paranoia is good.
+      did_trans_retry = true;
+
+      // We wait for the thread to transition to a more usable state.
+      for (int i = 1; i <= SuspendRetryCount; i++) {
+        // We used to do an "os::yield_all(i)" call here with the intention
+        // that yielding would increase on each retry. However, the parameter
+        // is ignored on Linux which means the yield didn't scale up. Waiting
+        // on the SR_lock below provides a much more predictable scale up for
+        // the delay. It also provides a simple/direct point to check for any
+        // safepoint requests from the VMThread
+
+        // temporarily drops SR_lock while doing wait with safepoint check
+        // (if we're a JavaThread - the WatcherThread can also call this)
+        // and increase delay with each retry
+        SR_lock()->wait(!Thread::current()->is_Java_thread(), i * delay);
+
+        // check the actual thread state instead of what we saved above
+        if (thread_state() != _thread_in_native_trans) {
+          // the thread has transitioned to another thread state so
+          // try all the checks (except this one) one more time.
+          do_trans_retry = true;
+          break;
+        }
+      } // end retry loop
+
+
+    }
+  } while (do_trans_retry);
+
+  *bits |= 0x00000010;
+  return false;
+}
+
+//
+// Wait for an external suspend request to complete (or be cancelled).
+// Returns true if the thread is externally suspended and false otherwise.
+//
+bool JavaThread::wait_for_ext_suspend_completion(int retries, int delay,
+       uint32_t *bits) {
+  TraceSuspendDebugBits tsdb(this, true /* is_wait */,
+                             false /* !called_by_wait */, bits);
+
+  // local flag copies to minimize SR_lock hold time
+  bool is_suspended;
+  bool pending;
+  uint32_t reset_bits;
+
+  // set a marker so is_ext_suspend_completed() knows we are the caller
+  *bits |= 0x00010000;
+
+  // We use reset_bits to reinitialize the bits value at the top of
+  // each retry loop. This allows the caller to make use of any
+  // unused bits for their own marking purposes.
+  reset_bits = *bits;
+
+  {
+    MutexLockerEx ml(SR_lock(), Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+    is_suspended = is_ext_suspend_completed(true /* called_by_wait */,
+                                            delay, bits);
+    pending = is_external_suspend();
+  }
+  // must release SR_lock to allow suspension to complete
+
+  if (!pending) {
+    // A cancelled suspend request is the only false return from
+    // is_ext_suspend_completed() that keeps us from entering the
+    // retry loop.
+    *bits |= 0x00020000;
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  if (is_suspended) {
+    *bits |= 0x00040000;
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  for (int i = 1; i <= retries; i++) {
+    *bits = reset_bits;  // reinit to only track last retry
+
+    // We used to do an "os::yield_all(i)" call here with the intention
+    // that yielding would increase on each retry. However, the parameter
+    // is ignored on Linux which means the yield didn't scale up. Waiting
+    // on the SR_lock below provides a much more predictable scale up for
+    // the delay. It also provides a simple/direct point to check for any
+    // safepoint requests from the VMThread
+
+    {
+      MutexLocker ml(SR_lock());
+      // wait with safepoint check (if we're a JavaThread - the WatcherThread
+      // can also call this)  and increase delay with each retry
+      SR_lock()->wait(!Thread::current()->is_Java_thread(), i * delay);
+
+      is_suspended = is_ext_suspend_completed(true /* called_by_wait */,
+                                              delay, bits);
+
+      // It is possible for the external suspend request to be cancelled
+      // (by a resume) before the actual suspend operation is completed.
+      // Refresh our local copy to see if we still need to wait.
+      pending = is_external_suspend();
+    }
+
+    if (!pending) {
+      // A cancelled suspend request is the only false return from
+      // is_ext_suspend_completed() that keeps us from staying in the
+      // retry loop.
+      *bits |= 0x00080000;
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (is_suspended) {
+      *bits |= 0x00100000;
+      return true;
+    }
+  } // end retry loop
+
+  // thread did not suspend after all our retries
+  *bits |= 0x00200000;
+  return false;
+}
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+void JavaThread::record_jump(address target, address instr, const char* file, int line) {
+
+  // This should not need to be atomic as the only way for simultaneous
+  // updates is via interrupts. Even then this should be rare or non-existant
+  // and we don't care that much anyway.
+
+  int index = _jmp_ring_index;
+  _jmp_ring_index = (index + 1 ) & (jump_ring_buffer_size - 1);
+  _jmp_ring[index]._target = (intptr_t) target;
+  _jmp_ring[index]._instruction = (intptr_t) instr;
+  _jmp_ring[index]._file = file;
+  _jmp_ring[index]._line = line;
+}
+#endif /* PRODUCT */
+
+// Called by flat profiler
+// Callers have already called wait_for_ext_suspend_completion
+// The assertion for that is currently too complex to put here:
+bool JavaThread::profile_last_Java_frame(frame* _fr) {
+  bool gotframe = false;
+  // self suspension saves needed state.
+  if (has_last_Java_frame() && _anchor.walkable()) {
+     *_fr = pd_last_frame();
+     gotframe = true;
+  }
+  return gotframe;
+}
+
+void Thread::interrupt(Thread* thread) {
+  trace("interrupt", thread);
+  debug_only(check_for_dangling_thread_pointer(thread);)
+  os::interrupt(thread);
+}
+
+bool Thread::is_interrupted(Thread* thread, bool clear_interrupted) {
+  trace("is_interrupted", thread);
+  debug_only(check_for_dangling_thread_pointer(thread);)
+  // Note:  If clear_interrupted==false, this simply fetches and
+  // returns the value of the field osthread()->interrupted().
+  return os::is_interrupted(thread, clear_interrupted);
+}
+
+
+// GC Support
+bool Thread::claim_oops_do_par_case(int strong_roots_parity) {
+  jint thread_parity = _oops_do_parity;
+  if (thread_parity != strong_roots_parity) {
+    jint res = Atomic::cmpxchg(strong_roots_parity, &_oops_do_parity, thread_parity);
+    if (res == thread_parity) return true;
+    else {
+      guarantee(res == strong_roots_parity, "Or else what?");
+      assert(SharedHeap::heap()->n_par_threads() > 0,
+             "Should only fail when parallel.");
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+  assert(SharedHeap::heap()->n_par_threads() > 0,
+         "Should only fail when parallel.");
+  return false;
+}
+
+void Thread::oops_do(OopClosure* f) {
+  active_handles()->oops_do(f);
+  // Do oop for ThreadShadow
+  f->do_oop((oop*)&_pending_exception);
+  handle_area()->oops_do(f);
+}
+
+void Thread::nmethods_do() {
+}
+
+void Thread::print_on(outputStream* st) const {
+  // get_priority assumes osthread initialized
+  if (osthread() != NULL) {
+    st->print("prio=%d tid=" INTPTR_FORMAT " ", get_priority(this), this);
+    osthread()->print_on(st);
+  }
+  debug_only(if (WizardMode) print_owned_locks_on(st);)
+}
+
+// Thread::print_on_error() is called by fatal error handler. Don't use
+// any lock or allocate memory.
+void Thread::print_on_error(outputStream* st, char* buf, int buflen) const {
+  if      (is_VM_thread())                  st->print("VMThread");
+  else if (is_Compiler_thread())            st->print("CompilerThread");
+  else if (is_Java_thread())                st->print("JavaThread");
+  else if (is_GC_task_thread())             st->print("GCTaskThread");
+  else if (is_Watcher_thread())             st->print("WatcherThread");
+  else if (is_ConcurrentGC_thread())        st->print("ConcurrentGCThread");
+  else st->print("Thread");
+
+  st->print(" [stack: " PTR_FORMAT "," PTR_FORMAT "]",
+            _stack_base - _stack_size, _stack_base);
+
+  if (osthread()) {
+    st->print(" [id=%d]", osthread()->thread_id());
+  }
+}
+
+#ifdef ASSERT
+void Thread::print_owned_locks_on(outputStream* st) const {
+  Monitor *cur = _owned_locks;
+  if (cur == NULL) {
+    st->print(" (no locks) ");
+  } else {
+    st->print_cr(" Locks owned:");
+    while(cur) {
+      cur->print_on(st);
+      cur = cur->next();
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+static int ref_use_count  = 0;
+
+bool Thread::owns_locks_but_compiled_lock() const {
+  for(Monitor *cur = _owned_locks; cur; cur = cur->next()) {
+    if (cur != Compile_lock) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+
+#endif
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+
+// The flag: potential_vm_operation notifies if this particular safepoint state could potential
+// invoke the vm-thread (i.e., and oop allocation). In that case, we also have to make sure that
+// no threads which allow_vm_block's are held
+void Thread::check_for_valid_safepoint_state(bool potential_vm_operation) {
+    // Check if current thread is allowed to block at a safepoint
+    if (!(_allow_safepoint_count == 0))
+      fatal("Possible safepoint reached by thread that does not allow it");
+    if (is_Java_thread() && ((JavaThread*)this)->thread_state() != _thread_in_vm) {
+      fatal("LEAF method calling lock?");
+    }
+
+#ifdef ASSERT
+    if (potential_vm_operation && is_Java_thread()
+        && !Universe::is_bootstrapping()) {
+      // Make sure we do not hold any locks that the VM thread also uses.
+      // This could potentially lead to deadlocks
+      for(Monitor *cur = _owned_locks; cur; cur = cur->next()) {
+        // Threads_lock is special, since the safepoint synchronization will not start before this is
+        // acquired. Hence, a JavaThread cannot be holding it at a safepoint. So is VMOperationRequest_lock,
+        // since it is used to transfer control between JavaThreads and the VMThread
+        // Do not *exclude* any locks unless you are absolutly sure it is correct. Ask someone else first!
+        if ( (cur->allow_vm_block() &&
+              cur != Threads_lock &&
+              cur != Compile_lock &&               // Temporary: should not be necessary when we get spearate compilation
+              cur != VMOperationRequest_lock &&
+              cur != VMOperationQueue_lock) ||
+              cur->rank() == Mutex::special) {
+          warning("Thread holding lock at safepoint that vm can block on: %s", cur->name());
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (GCALotAtAllSafepoints) {
+      // We could enter a safepoint here and thus have a gc
+      InterfaceSupport::check_gc_alot();
+    }
+
+#endif
+}
+#endif
+
+bool Thread::lock_is_in_stack(address adr) const {
+  assert(Thread::current() == this, "lock_is_in_stack can only be called from current thread");
+  // High limit: highest_lock is set during thread execution
+  // Low  limit: address of the local variable dummy, rounded to 4K boundary.
+  // (The rounding helps finding threads in unsafe mode, even if the particular stack
+  // frame has been popped already.  Correct as long as stacks are at least 4K long and aligned.)
+  address end = os::current_stack_pointer();
+  if (_highest_lock >= adr && adr >= end) return true;
+
+  return false;
+}
+
+
+bool Thread::is_in_stack(address adr) const {
+  assert(Thread::current() == this, "is_in_stack can only be called from current thread");
+  address end = os::current_stack_pointer();
+  if (stack_base() >= adr && adr >= end) return true;
+
+  return false;
+}
+
+
+// We had to move these methods here, because vm threads get into ObjectSynchronizer::enter
+// However, there is a note in JavaThread::is_lock_owned() about the VM threads not being
+// used for compilation in the future. If that change is made, the need for these methods
+// should be revisited, and they should be removed if possible.
+
+bool Thread::is_lock_owned(address adr) const {
+  if (lock_is_in_stack(adr) ) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
+bool Thread::set_as_starting_thread() {
+ // NOTE: this must be called inside the main thread.
+  return os::create_main_thread((JavaThread*)this);
+}
+
+static void initialize_class(symbolHandle class_name, TRAPS) {
+  klassOop klass = SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(class_name, true, CHECK);
+  instanceKlass::cast(klass)->initialize(CHECK);
+}
+
+
+// Creates the initial ThreadGroup
+static Handle create_initial_thread_group(TRAPS) {
+  klassOop k = SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ThreadGroup(), true, CHECK_NH);
+  instanceKlassHandle klass (THREAD, k);
+
+  Handle system_instance = klass->allocate_instance_handle(CHECK_NH);
+  {
+    JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+    JavaCalls::call_special(&result,
+                            system_instance,
+                            klass,
+                            vmSymbolHandles::object_initializer_name(),
+                            vmSymbolHandles::void_method_signature(),
+                            CHECK_NH);
+  }
+  Universe::set_system_thread_group(system_instance());
+
+  Handle main_instance = klass->allocate_instance_handle(CHECK_NH);
+  {
+    JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+    Handle string = java_lang_String::create_from_str("main", CHECK_NH);
+    JavaCalls::call_special(&result,
+                            main_instance,
+                            klass,
+                            vmSymbolHandles::object_initializer_name(),
+                            vmSymbolHandles::threadgroup_string_void_signature(),
+                            system_instance,
+                            string,
+                            CHECK_NH);
+  }
+  return main_instance;
+}
+
+// Creates the initial Thread
+static oop create_initial_thread(Handle thread_group, JavaThread* thread, TRAPS) {
+  klassOop k = SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Thread(), true, CHECK_NULL);
+  instanceKlassHandle klass (THREAD, k);
+  instanceHandle thread_oop = klass->allocate_instance_handle(CHECK_NULL);
+
+  java_lang_Thread::set_thread(thread_oop(), thread);
+  java_lang_Thread::set_priority(thread_oop(), NormPriority);
+  thread->set_threadObj(thread_oop());
+
+  Handle string = java_lang_String::create_from_str("main", CHECK_NULL);
+
+  JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+  JavaCalls::call_special(&result, thread_oop,
+                                   klass,
+                                   vmSymbolHandles::object_initializer_name(),
+                                   vmSymbolHandles::threadgroup_string_void_signature(),
+                                   thread_group,
+                                   string,
+                                   CHECK_NULL);
+  return thread_oop();
+}
+
+static void call_initializeSystemClass(TRAPS) {
+  klassOop k =  SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_System(), true, CHECK);
+  instanceKlassHandle klass (THREAD, k);
+
+  JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+  JavaCalls::call_static(&result, klass, vmSymbolHandles::initializeSystemClass_name(),
+                                         vmSymbolHandles::void_method_signature(), CHECK);
+}
+
+static void reset_vm_info_property(TRAPS) {
+  // the vm info string
+  ResourceMark rm(THREAD);
+  const char *vm_info = VM_Version::vm_info_string();
+
+  // java.lang.System class
+  klassOop k =  SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_System(), true, CHECK);
+  instanceKlassHandle klass (THREAD, k);
+
+  // setProperty arguments
+  Handle key_str    = java_lang_String::create_from_str("java.vm.info", CHECK);
+  Handle value_str  = java_lang_String::create_from_str(vm_info, CHECK);
+
+  // return value
+  JavaValue r(T_OBJECT);
+
+  // public static String setProperty(String key, String value);
+  JavaCalls::call_static(&r,
+                         klass,
+                         vmSymbolHandles::setProperty_name(),
+                         vmSymbolHandles::string_string_string_signature(),
+                         key_str,
+                         value_str,
+                         CHECK);
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::allocate_threadObj(Handle thread_group, char* thread_name, bool daemon, TRAPS) {
+  assert(thread_group.not_null(), "thread group should be specified");
+  assert(threadObj() == NULL, "should only create Java thread object once");
+
+  klassOop k = SystemDictionary::resolve_or_fail(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Thread(), true, CHECK);
+  instanceKlassHandle klass (THREAD, k);
+  instanceHandle thread_oop = klass->allocate_instance_handle(CHECK);
+
+  java_lang_Thread::set_thread(thread_oop(), this);
+  java_lang_Thread::set_priority(thread_oop(), NormPriority);
+  set_threadObj(thread_oop());
+
+  JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+  if (thread_name != NULL) {
+    Handle name = java_lang_String::create_from_str(thread_name, CHECK);
+    // Thread gets assigned specified name and null target
+    JavaCalls::call_special(&result,
+                            thread_oop,
+                            klass,
+                            vmSymbolHandles::object_initializer_name(),
+                            vmSymbolHandles::threadgroup_string_void_signature(),
+                            thread_group, // Argument 1
+                            name,         // Argument 2
+                            THREAD);
+  } else {
+    // Thread gets assigned name "Thread-nnn" and null target
+    // (java.lang.Thread doesn't have a constructor taking only a ThreadGroup argument)
+    JavaCalls::call_special(&result,
+                            thread_oop,
+                            klass,
+                            vmSymbolHandles::object_initializer_name(),
+                            vmSymbolHandles::threadgroup_runnable_void_signature(),
+                            thread_group, // Argument 1
+                            Handle(),     // Argument 2
+                            THREAD);
+  }
+
+
+  if (daemon) {
+      java_lang_Thread::set_daemon(thread_oop());
+  }
+
+  if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  KlassHandle group(this, SystemDictionary::threadGroup_klass());
+  Handle threadObj(this, this->threadObj());
+
+  JavaCalls::call_special(&result,
+                         thread_group,
+                         group,
+                         vmSymbolHandles::add_method_name(),
+                         vmSymbolHandles::thread_void_signature(),
+                         threadObj,          // Arg 1
+                         THREAD);
+
+
+}
+
+// NamedThread --  non-JavaThread subclasses with multiple
+// uniquely named instances should derive from this.
+NamedThread::NamedThread() : Thread() {
+  _name = NULL;
+}
+
+NamedThread::~NamedThread() {
+  if (_name != NULL) {
+    FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, _name);
+    _name = NULL;
+  }
+}
+
+void NamedThread::set_name(const char* format, ...) {
+  guarantee(_name == NULL, "Only get to set name once.");
+  _name = NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, max_name_len);
+  guarantee(_name != NULL, "alloc failure");
+  va_list ap;
+  va_start(ap, format);
+  jio_vsnprintf(_name, max_name_len, format, ap);
+  va_end(ap);
+}
+
+// ======= WatcherThread ========
+
+// The watcher thread exists to simulate timer interrupts.  It should
+// be replaced by an abstraction over whatever native support for
+// timer interrupts exists on the platform.
+
+WatcherThread* WatcherThread::_watcher_thread   = NULL;
+bool           WatcherThread::_should_terminate = false;
+
+WatcherThread::WatcherThread() : Thread() {
+  assert(watcher_thread() == NULL, "we can only allocate one WatcherThread");
+  if (os::create_thread(this, os::watcher_thread)) {
+    _watcher_thread = this;
+
+    // Set the watcher thread to the highest OS priority which should not be
+    // used, unless a Java thread with priority java.lang.Thread.MAX_PRIORITY
+    // is created. The only normal thread using this priority is the reference
+    // handler thread, which runs for very short intervals only.
+    // If the VMThread's priority is not lower than the WatcherThread profiling
+    // will be inaccurate.
+    os::set_priority(this, MaxPriority);
+    if (!DisableStartThread) {
+      os::start_thread(this);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void WatcherThread::run() {
+  assert(this == watcher_thread(), "just checking");
+
+  this->record_stack_base_and_size();
+  this->initialize_thread_local_storage();
+  this->set_active_handles(JNIHandleBlock::allocate_block());
+  while(!_should_terminate) {
+    assert(watcher_thread() == Thread::current(),  "thread consistency check");
+    assert(watcher_thread() == this,  "thread consistency check");
+
+    // Calculate how long it'll be until the next PeriodicTask work
+    // should be done, and sleep that amount of time.
+    const size_t time_to_wait = PeriodicTask::time_to_wait();
+    os::sleep(this, time_to_wait, false);
+
+    if (is_error_reported()) {
+      // A fatal error has happened, the error handler(VMError::report_and_die)
+      // should abort JVM after creating an error log file. However in some
+      // rare cases, the error handler itself might deadlock. Here we try to
+      // kill JVM if the fatal error handler fails to abort in 2 minutes.
+      //
+      // This code is in WatcherThread because WatcherThread wakes up
+      // periodically so the fatal error handler doesn't need to do anything;
+      // also because the WatcherThread is less likely to crash than other
+      // threads.
+
+      for (;;) {
+        if (!ShowMessageBoxOnError
+         && (OnError == NULL || OnError[0] == '\0')
+         && Arguments::abort_hook() == NULL) {
+             os::sleep(this, 2 * 60 * 1000, false);
+             fdStream err(defaultStream::output_fd());
+             err.print_raw_cr("# [ timer expired, abort... ]");
+             // skip atexit/vm_exit/vm_abort hooks
+             os::die();
+        }
+
+        // Wake up 5 seconds later, the fatal handler may reset OnError or
+        // ShowMessageBoxOnError when it is ready to abort.
+        os::sleep(this, 5 * 1000, false);
+      }
+    }
+
+    PeriodicTask::real_time_tick(time_to_wait);
+
+    // If we have no more tasks left due to dynamic disenrollment,
+    // shut down the thread since we don't currently support dynamic enrollment
+    if (PeriodicTask::num_tasks() == 0) {
+      _should_terminate = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Signal that it is terminated
+  {
+    MutexLockerEx mu(Terminator_lock, Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+    _watcher_thread = NULL;
+    Terminator_lock->notify();
+  }
+
+  // Thread destructor usually does this..
+  ThreadLocalStorage::set_thread(NULL);
+}
+
+void WatcherThread::start() {
+  if (watcher_thread() == NULL) {
+    _should_terminate = false;
+    // Create the single instance of WatcherThread
+    new WatcherThread();
+  }
+}
+
+void WatcherThread::stop() {
+  // it is ok to take late safepoints here, if needed
+  MutexLocker mu(Terminator_lock);
+  _should_terminate = true;
+  while(watcher_thread() != NULL) {
+    // This wait should make safepoint checks, wait without a timeout,
+    // and wait as a suspend-equivalent condition.
+    //
+    // Note: If the FlatProfiler is running, then this thread is waiting
+    // for the WatcherThread to terminate and the WatcherThread, via the
+    // FlatProfiler task, is waiting for the external suspend request on
+    // this thread to complete. wait_for_ext_suspend_completion() will
+    // eventually timeout, but that takes time. Making this wait a
+    // suspend-equivalent condition solves that timeout problem.
+    //
+    Terminator_lock->wait(!Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag, 0,
+                          Mutex::_as_suspend_equivalent_flag);
+  }
+}
+
+void WatcherThread::print_on(outputStream* st) const {
+  st->print("\"%s\" ", name());
+  Thread::print_on(st);
+  st->cr();
+}
+
+// ======= JavaThread ========
+
+// A JavaThread is a normal Java thread
+
+void JavaThread::initialize() {
+  // Initialize fields
+  set_saved_exception_pc(NULL);
+  set_threadObj(NULL);
+  _anchor.clear();
+  set_entry_point(NULL);
+  set_jni_functions(jni_functions());
+  set_callee_target(NULL);
+  set_vm_result(NULL);
+  set_vm_result_2(NULL);
+  set_vframe_array_head(NULL);
+  set_vframe_array_last(NULL);
+  set_deferred_locals(NULL);
+  set_deopt_mark(NULL);
+  clear_must_deopt_id();
+  set_monitor_chunks(NULL);
+  set_next(NULL);
+  set_thread_state(_thread_new);
+  _terminated = _not_terminated;
+  _privileged_stack_top = NULL;
+  _array_for_gc = NULL;
+  _suspend_equivalent = false;
+  _in_deopt_handler = 0;
+  _doing_unsafe_access = false;
+  _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_unused;
+  _exception_oop = NULL;
+  _exception_pc  = 0;
+  _exception_handler_pc = 0;
+  _exception_stack_size = 0;
+  _jvmti_thread_state= NULL;
+  _jvmti_get_loaded_classes_closure = NULL;
+  _interp_only_mode    = 0;
+  _special_runtime_exit_condition = _no_async_condition;
+  _pending_async_exception = NULL;
+  _is_compiling = false;
+  _thread_stat = NULL;
+  _thread_stat = new ThreadStatistics();
+  _blocked_on_compilation = false;
+  _jni_active_critical = 0;
+  _do_not_unlock_if_synchronized = false;
+  _cached_monitor_info = NULL;
+  _parker = Parker::Allocate(this) ;
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+  _jmp_ring_index = 0;
+  for (int ji = 0 ; ji < jump_ring_buffer_size ; ji++ ) {
+    record_jump(NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
+  }
+#endif /* PRODUCT */
+
+  set_thread_profiler(NULL);
+  if (FlatProfiler::is_active()) {
+    // This is where we would decide to either give each thread it's own profiler
+    // or use one global one from FlatProfiler,
+    // or up to some count of the number of profiled threads, etc.
+    ThreadProfiler* pp = new ThreadProfiler();
+    pp->engage();
+    set_thread_profiler(pp);
+  }
+
+  // Setup safepoint state info for this thread
+  ThreadSafepointState::create(this);
+
+  debug_only(_java_call_counter = 0);
+
+  // JVMTI PopFrame support
+  _popframe_condition = popframe_inactive;
+  _popframe_preserved_args = NULL;
+  _popframe_preserved_args_size = 0;
+
+  pd_initialize();
+}
+
+JavaThread::JavaThread(bool is_attaching) : Thread() {
+  initialize();
+  _is_attaching = is_attaching;
+}
+
+bool JavaThread::reguard_stack(address cur_sp) {
+  if (_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_yellow_disabled) {
+    return true; // Stack already guarded or guard pages not needed.
+  }
+
+  if (register_stack_overflow()) {
+    // For those architectures which have separate register and
+    // memory stacks, we must check the register stack to see if
+    // it has overflowed.
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // Java code never executes within the yellow zone: the latter is only
+  // there to provoke an exception during stack banging.  If java code
+  // is executing there, either StackShadowPages should be larger, or
+  // some exception code in c1, c2 or the interpreter isn't unwinding
+  // when it should.
+  guarantee(cur_sp > stack_yellow_zone_base(), "not enough space to reguard - increase StackShadowPages");
+
+  enable_stack_yellow_zone();
+  return true;
+}
+
+bool JavaThread::reguard_stack(void) {
+  return reguard_stack(os::current_stack_pointer());
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::block_if_vm_exited() {
+  if (_terminated == _vm_exited) {
+    // _vm_exited is set at safepoint, and Threads_lock is never released
+    // we will block here forever
+    Threads_lock->lock_without_safepoint_check();
+    ShouldNotReachHere();
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Remove this ifdef when C1 is ported to the compiler interface.
+static void compiler_thread_entry(JavaThread* thread, TRAPS);
+
+JavaThread::JavaThread(ThreadFunction entry_point, size_t stack_sz) : Thread() {
+  if (TraceThreadEvents) {
+    tty->print_cr("creating thread %p", this);
+  }
+  initialize();
+  _is_attaching = false;
+  set_entry_point(entry_point);
+  // Create the native thread itself.
+  // %note runtime_23
+  os::ThreadType thr_type = os::java_thread;
+  thr_type = entry_point == &compiler_thread_entry ? os::compiler_thread :
+                                                     os::java_thread;
+  os::create_thread(this, thr_type, stack_sz);
+
+  // The _osthread may be NULL here because we ran out of memory (too many threads active).
+  // We need to throw and OutOfMemoryError - however we cannot do this here because the caller
+  // may hold a lock and all locks must be unlocked before throwing the exception (throwing
+  // the exception consists of creating the exception object & initializing it, initialization
+  // will leave the VM via a JavaCall and then all locks must be unlocked).
+  //
+  // The thread is still suspended when we reach here. Thread must be explicit started
+  // by creator! Furthermore, the thread must also explicitly be added to the Threads list
+  // by calling Threads:add. The reason why this is not done here, is because the thread
+  // object must be fully initialized (take a look at JVM_Start)
+}
+
+JavaThread::~JavaThread() {
+  if (TraceThreadEvents) {
+      tty->print_cr("terminate thread %p", this);
+  }
+
+  // JSR166 -- return the parker to the free list
+  Parker::Release(_parker);
+  _parker = NULL ;
+
+  // Free any remaining  previous UnrollBlock
+  vframeArray* old_array = vframe_array_last();
+
+  if (old_array != NULL) {
+    Deoptimization::UnrollBlock* old_info = old_array->unroll_block();
+    old_array->set_unroll_block(NULL);
+    delete old_info;
+    delete old_array;
+  }
+
+  GrowableArray<jvmtiDeferredLocalVariableSet*>* deferred = deferred_locals();
+  if (deferred != NULL) {
+    // This can only happen if thread is destroyed before deoptimization occurs.
+    assert(deferred->length() != 0, "empty array!");
+    do {
+      jvmtiDeferredLocalVariableSet* dlv = deferred->at(0);
+      deferred->remove_at(0);
+      // individual jvmtiDeferredLocalVariableSet are CHeapObj's
+      delete dlv;
+    } while (deferred->length() != 0);
+    delete deferred;
+  }
+
+  // All Java related clean up happens in exit
+  ThreadSafepointState::destroy(this);
+  if (_thread_profiler != NULL) delete _thread_profiler;
+  if (_thread_stat != NULL) delete _thread_stat;
+
+  if (jvmti_thread_state() != NULL) {
+    JvmtiExport::cleanup_thread(this);
+  }
+}
+
+
+// The first routine called by a new Java thread
+void JavaThread::run() {
+  // initialize thread-local alloc buffer related fields
+  this->initialize_tlab();
+
+  // used to test validitity of stack trace backs
+  this->record_base_of_stack_pointer();
+
+  // Record real stack base and size.
+  this->record_stack_base_and_size();
+
+  // Initialize thread local storage; set before calling MutexLocker
+  this->initialize_thread_local_storage();
+
+  this->create_stack_guard_pages();
+
+  // Thread is now sufficient initialized to be handled by the safepoint code as being
+  // in the VM. Change thread state from _thread_new to _thread_in_vm
+  ThreadStateTransition::transition_and_fence(this, _thread_new, _thread_in_vm);
+
+  assert(JavaThread::current() == this, "sanity check");
+  assert(!Thread::current()->owns_locks(), "sanity check");
+
+  DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(start, this);
+
+  // This operation might block. We call that after all safepoint checks for a new thread has
+  // been completed.
+  this->set_active_handles(JNIHandleBlock::allocate_block());
+
+  if (JvmtiExport::should_post_thread_life()) {
+    JvmtiExport::post_thread_start(this);
+  }
+
+  // We call another function to do the rest so we are sure that the stack addresses used
+  // from there will be lower than the stack base just computed
+  thread_main_inner();
+
+  // Note, thread is no longer valid at this point!
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::thread_main_inner() {
+  assert(JavaThread::current() == this, "sanity check");
+  assert(this->threadObj() != NULL, "just checking");
+
+  // Execute thread entry point. If this thread is being asked to restart,
+  // or has been stopped before starting, do not reexecute entry point.
+  // Note: Due to JVM_StopThread we can have pending exceptions already!
+  if (!this->has_pending_exception() && !java_lang_Thread::is_stillborn(this->threadObj())) {
+    // enter the thread's entry point only if we have no pending exceptions
+    HandleMark hm(this);
+    this->entry_point()(this, this);
+  }
+
+  DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(stop, this);
+
+  this->exit(false);
+  delete this;
+}
+
+
+static void ensure_join(JavaThread* thread) {
+  // We do not need to grap the Threads_lock, since we are operating on ourself.
+  Handle threadObj(thread, thread->threadObj());
+  assert(threadObj.not_null(), "java thread object must exist");
+  ObjectLocker lock(threadObj, thread);
+  // Ignore pending exception (ThreadDeath), since we are exiting anyway
+  thread->clear_pending_exception();
+  // It is of profound importance that we set the stillborn bit and reset the thread object,
+  // before we do the notify. Since, changing these two variable will make JVM_IsAlive return
+  // false. So in case another thread is doing a join on this thread , it will detect that the thread
+  // is dead when it gets notified.
+  java_lang_Thread::set_stillborn(threadObj());
+  // Thread is exiting. So set thread_status field in  java.lang.Thread class to TERMINATED.
+  java_lang_Thread::set_thread_status(threadObj(), java_lang_Thread::TERMINATED);
+  java_lang_Thread::set_thread(threadObj(), NULL);
+  lock.notify_all(thread);
+  // Ignore pending exception (ThreadDeath), since we are exiting anyway
+  thread->clear_pending_exception();
+}
+
+// For any new cleanup additions, please check to see if they need to be applied to
+// cleanup_failed_attach_current_thread as well.
+void JavaThread::exit(bool destroy_vm, ExitType exit_type) {
+  assert(this == JavaThread::current(),  "thread consistency check");
+  if (!InitializeJavaLangSystem) return;
+
+  HandleMark hm(this);
+  Handle uncaught_exception(this, this->pending_exception());
+  this->clear_pending_exception();
+  Handle threadObj(this, this->threadObj());
+  assert(threadObj.not_null(), "Java thread object should be created");
+
+  if (get_thread_profiler() != NULL) {
+    get_thread_profiler()->disengage();
+    ResourceMark rm;
+    get_thread_profiler()->print(get_thread_name());
+  }
+
+
+  // FIXIT: This code should be moved into else part, when reliable 1.2/1.3 check is in place
+  {
+    EXCEPTION_MARK;
+
+    CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+  }
+  // FIXIT: The is_null check is only so it works better on JDK1.2 VM's. This
+  // has to be fixed by a runtime query method
+  if (!destroy_vm || JDK_Version::is_jdk12x_version()) {
+    // JSR-166: change call from from ThreadGroup.uncaughtException to
+    // java.lang.Thread.dispatchUncaughtException
+    if (uncaught_exception.not_null()) {
+      Handle group(this, java_lang_Thread::threadGroup(threadObj()));
+      Events::log("uncaught exception INTPTR_FORMAT " " INTPTR_FORMAT " " INTPTR_FORMAT",
+        (address)uncaught_exception(), (address)threadObj(), (address)group());
+      {
+        EXCEPTION_MARK;
+        // Check if the method Thread.dispatchUncaughtException() exists. If so
+        // call it.  Otherwise we have an older library without the JSR-166 changes,
+        // so call ThreadGroup.uncaughtException()
+        KlassHandle recvrKlass(THREAD, threadObj->klass());
+        CallInfo callinfo;
+        KlassHandle thread_klass(THREAD, SystemDictionary::thread_klass());
+        LinkResolver::resolve_virtual_call(callinfo, threadObj, recvrKlass, thread_klass,
+                                           vmSymbolHandles::dispatchUncaughtException_name(),
+                                           vmSymbolHandles::throwable_void_signature(),
+                                           KlassHandle(), false, false, THREAD);
+        CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+        methodHandle method = callinfo.selected_method();
+        if (method.not_null()) {
+          JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+          JavaCalls::call_virtual(&result,
+                                  threadObj, thread_klass,
+                                  vmSymbolHandles::dispatchUncaughtException_name(),
+                                  vmSymbolHandles::throwable_void_signature(),
+                                  uncaught_exception,
+                                  THREAD);
+        } else {
+          KlassHandle thread_group(THREAD, SystemDictionary::threadGroup_klass());
+          JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+          JavaCalls::call_virtual(&result,
+                                  group, thread_group,
+                                  vmSymbolHandles::uncaughtException_name(),
+                                  vmSymbolHandles::thread_throwable_void_signature(),
+                                  threadObj,           // Arg 1
+                                  uncaught_exception,  // Arg 2
+                                  THREAD);
+        }
+        CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Call Thread.exit(). We try 3 times in case we got another Thread.stop during
+    // the execution of the method. If that is not enough, then we don't really care. Thread.stop
+    // is deprecated anyhow.
+    { int count = 3;
+      while (java_lang_Thread::threadGroup(threadObj()) != NULL && (count-- > 0)) {
+        EXCEPTION_MARK;
+        JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+        KlassHandle thread_klass(THREAD, SystemDictionary::thread_klass());
+        JavaCalls::call_virtual(&result,
+                              threadObj, thread_klass,
+                              vmSymbolHandles::exit_method_name(),
+                              vmSymbolHandles::void_method_signature(),
+                              THREAD);
+        CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+      }
+    }
+
+    // notify JVMTI
+    if (JvmtiExport::should_post_thread_life()) {
+      JvmtiExport::post_thread_end(this);
+    }
+
+    // We have notified the agents that we are exiting, before we go on,
+    // we must check for a pending external suspend request and honor it
+    // in order to not surprise the thread that made the suspend request.
+    while (true) {
+      {
+        MutexLockerEx ml(SR_lock(), Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+        if (!is_external_suspend()) {
+          set_terminated(_thread_exiting);
+          ThreadService::current_thread_exiting(this);
+          break;
+        }
+        // Implied else:
+        // Things get a little tricky here. We have a pending external
+        // suspend request, but we are holding the SR_lock so we
+        // can't just self-suspend. So we temporarily drop the lock
+        // and then self-suspend.
+      }
+
+      ThreadBlockInVM tbivm(this);
+      java_suspend_self();
+
+      // We're done with this suspend request, but we have to loop around
+      // and check again. Eventually we will get SR_lock without a pending
+      // external suspend request and will be able to mark ourselves as
+      // exiting.
+    }
+    // no more external suspends are allowed at this point
+  } else {
+    // before_exit() has already posted JVMTI THREAD_END events
+  }
+
+  // Notify waiters on thread object. This has to be done after exit() is called
+  // on the thread (if the thread is the last thread in a daemon ThreadGroup the
+  // group should have the destroyed bit set before waiters are notified).
+  ensure_join(this);
+  assert(!this->has_pending_exception(), "ensure_join should have cleared");
+
+  // 6282335 JNI DetachCurrentThread spec states that all Java monitors
+  // held by this thread must be released.  A detach operation must only
+  // get here if there are no Java frames on the stack.  Therefore, any
+  // owned monitors at this point MUST be JNI-acquired monitors which are
+  // pre-inflated and in the monitor cache.
+  //
+  // ensure_join() ignores IllegalThreadStateExceptions, and so does this.
+  if (exit_type == jni_detach && JNIDetachReleasesMonitors) {
+    assert(!this->has_last_Java_frame(), "detaching with Java frames?");
+    ObjectSynchronizer::release_monitors_owned_by_thread(this);
+    assert(!this->has_pending_exception(), "release_monitors should have cleared");
+  }
+
+  // These things needs to be done while we are still a Java Thread. Make sure that thread
+  // is in a consistent state, in case GC happens
+  assert(_privileged_stack_top == NULL, "must be NULL when we get here");
+
+  if (active_handles() != NULL) {
+    JNIHandleBlock* block = active_handles();
+    set_active_handles(NULL);
+    JNIHandleBlock::release_block(block);
+  }
+
+  if (free_handle_block() != NULL) {
+    JNIHandleBlock* block = free_handle_block();
+    set_free_handle_block(NULL);
+    JNIHandleBlock::release_block(block);
+  }
+
+  // These have to be removed while this is still a valid thread.
+  remove_stack_guard_pages();
+
+  if (UseTLAB) {
+    tlab().make_parsable(true);  // retire TLAB
+  }
+
+  // Remove from list of active threads list, and notify VM thread if we are the last non-daemon thread
+  Threads::remove(this);
+}
+
+void JavaThread::cleanup_failed_attach_current_thread() {
+
+     if (get_thread_profiler() != NULL) {
+       get_thread_profiler()->disengage();
+       ResourceMark rm;
+       get_thread_profiler()->print(get_thread_name());
+     }
+
+     if (active_handles() != NULL) {
+      JNIHandleBlock* block = active_handles();
+      set_active_handles(NULL);
+      JNIHandleBlock::release_block(block);
+     }
+
+     if (free_handle_block() != NULL) {
+       JNIHandleBlock* block = free_handle_block();
+       set_free_handle_block(NULL);
+       JNIHandleBlock::release_block(block);
+     }
+
+     if (UseTLAB) {
+       tlab().make_parsable(true);  // retire TLAB, if any
+     }
+
+     Threads::remove(this);
+     delete this;
+}
+
+
+JavaThread* JavaThread::active() {
+  Thread* thread = ThreadLocalStorage::thread();
+  assert(thread != NULL, "just checking");
+  if (thread->is_Java_thread()) {
+    return (JavaThread*) thread;
+  } else {
+    assert(thread->is_VM_thread(), "this must be a vm thread");
+    VM_Operation* op = ((VMThread*) thread)->vm_operation();
+    JavaThread *ret=op == NULL ? NULL : (JavaThread *)op->calling_thread();
+    assert(ret->is_Java_thread(), "must be a Java thread");
+    return ret;
+  }
+}
+
+bool JavaThread::is_lock_owned(address adr) const {
+  if (lock_is_in_stack(adr)) return true;
+
+  for (MonitorChunk* chunk = monitor_chunks(); chunk != NULL; chunk = chunk->next()) {
+    if (chunk->contains(adr)) return true;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::add_monitor_chunk(MonitorChunk* chunk) {
+  chunk->set_next(monitor_chunks());
+  set_monitor_chunks(chunk);
+}
+
+void JavaThread::remove_monitor_chunk(MonitorChunk* chunk) {
+  guarantee(monitor_chunks() != NULL, "must be non empty");
+  if (monitor_chunks() == chunk) {
+    set_monitor_chunks(chunk->next());
+  } else {
+    MonitorChunk* prev = monitor_chunks();
+    while (prev->next() != chunk) prev = prev->next();
+    prev->set_next(chunk->next());
+  }
+}
+
+// JVM support.
+
+// Note: this function shouldn't block if it's called in
+// _thread_in_native_trans state (such as from
+// check_special_condition_for_native_trans()).
+void JavaThread::check_and_handle_async_exceptions(bool check_unsafe_error) {
+
+  if (has_last_Java_frame() && has_async_condition()) {
+    // If we are at a polling page safepoint (not a poll return)
+    // then we must defer async exception because live registers
+    // will be clobbered by the exception path. Poll return is
+    // ok because the call we a returning from already collides
+    // with exception handling registers and so there is no issue.
+    // (The exception handling path kills call result registers but
+    //  this is ok since the exception kills the result anyway).
+
+    if (is_at_poll_safepoint()) {
+      // if the code we are returning to has deoptimized we must defer
+      // the exception otherwise live registers get clobbered on the
+      // exception path before deoptimization is able to retrieve them.
+      //
+      RegisterMap map(this, false);
+      frame caller_fr = last_frame().sender(&map);
+      assert(caller_fr.is_compiled_frame(), "what?");
+      if (caller_fr.is_deoptimized_frame()) {
+        if (TraceExceptions) {
+          ResourceMark rm;
+          tty->print_cr("deferred async exception at compiled safepoint");
+        }
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  JavaThread::AsyncRequests condition = clear_special_runtime_exit_condition();
+  if (condition == _no_async_condition) {
+    // Conditions have changed since has_special_runtime_exit_condition()
+    // was called:
+    // - if we were here only because of an external suspend request,
+    //   then that was taken care of above (or cancelled) so we are done
+    // - if we were here because of another async request, then it has
+    //   been cleared between the has_special_runtime_exit_condition()
+    //   and now so again we are done
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Check for pending async. exception
+  if (_pending_async_exception != NULL) {
+    // Only overwrite an already pending exception, if it is not a threadDeath.
+    if (!has_pending_exception() || !pending_exception()->is_a(SystemDictionary::threaddeath_klass())) {
+
+      // We cannot call Exceptions::_throw(...) here because we cannot block
+      set_pending_exception(_pending_async_exception, __FILE__, __LINE__);
+
+      if (TraceExceptions) {
+        ResourceMark rm;
+        tty->print("Async. exception installed at runtime exit (" INTPTR_FORMAT ")", this);
+        if (has_last_Java_frame() ) {
+          frame f = last_frame();
+          tty->print(" (pc: " INTPTR_FORMAT " sp: " INTPTR_FORMAT " )", f.pc(), f.sp());
+        }
+        tty->print_cr(" of type: %s", instanceKlass::cast(_pending_async_exception->klass())->external_name());
+      }
+      _pending_async_exception = NULL;
+      clear_has_async_exception();
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (check_unsafe_error &&
+      condition == _async_unsafe_access_error && !has_pending_exception()) {
+    condition = _no_async_condition;  // done
+    switch (thread_state()) {
+    case _thread_in_vm:
+      {
+        JavaThread* THREAD = this;
+        THROW_MSG(vmSymbols::java_lang_InternalError(), "a fault occurred in an unsafe memory access operation");
+      }
+    case _thread_in_native:
+      {
+        ThreadInVMfromNative tiv(this);
+        JavaThread* THREAD = this;
+        THROW_MSG(vmSymbols::java_lang_InternalError(), "a fault occurred in an unsafe memory access operation");
+      }
+    case _thread_in_Java:
+      {
+        ThreadInVMfromJava tiv(this);
+        JavaThread* THREAD = this;
+        THROW_MSG(vmSymbols::java_lang_InternalError(), "a fault occurred in a recent unsafe memory access operation in compiled Java code");
+      }
+    default:
+      ShouldNotReachHere();
+    }
+  }
+
+  assert(condition == _no_async_condition || has_pending_exception() ||
+         (!check_unsafe_error && condition == _async_unsafe_access_error),
+         "must have handled the async condition, if no exception");
+}
+
+void JavaThread::handle_special_runtime_exit_condition(bool check_asyncs) {
+  //
+  // Check for pending external suspend. Internal suspend requests do
+  // not use handle_special_runtime_exit_condition().
+  // If JNIEnv proxies are allowed, don't self-suspend if the target
+  // thread is not the current thread. In older versions of jdbx, jdbx
+  // threads could call into the VM with another thread's JNIEnv so we
+  // can be here operating on behalf of a suspended thread (4432884).
+  bool do_self_suspend = is_external_suspend_with_lock();
+  if (do_self_suspend && (!AllowJNIEnvProxy || this == JavaThread::current())) {
+    //
+    // Because thread is external suspended the safepoint code will count
+    // thread as at a safepoint. This can be odd because we can be here
+    // as _thread_in_Java which would normally transition to _thread_blocked
+    // at a safepoint. We would like to mark the thread as _thread_blocked
+    // before calling java_suspend_self like all other callers of it but
+    // we must then observe proper safepoint protocol. (We can't leave
+    // _thread_blocked with a safepoint in progress). However we can be
+    // here as _thread_in_native_trans so we can't use a normal transition
+    // constructor/destructor pair because they assert on that type of
+    // transition. We could do something like:
+    //
+    // JavaThreadState state = thread_state();
+    // set_thread_state(_thread_in_vm);
+    // {
+    //   ThreadBlockInVM tbivm(this);
+    //   java_suspend_self()
+    // }
+    // set_thread_state(_thread_in_vm_trans);
+    // if (safepoint) block;
+    // set_thread_state(state);
+    //
+    // but that is pretty messy. Instead we just go with the way the
+    // code has worked before and note that this is the only path to
+    // java_suspend_self that doesn't put the thread in _thread_blocked
+    // mode.
+
+    frame_anchor()->make_walkable(this);
+    java_suspend_self();
+
+    // We might be here for reasons in addition to the self-suspend request
+    // so check for other async requests.
+  }
+
+  if (check_asyncs) {
+    check_and_handle_async_exceptions();
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::send_thread_stop(oop java_throwable)  {
+  assert(Thread::current()->is_VM_thread(), "should be in the vm thread");
+  assert(Threads_lock->is_locked(), "Threads_lock should be locked by safepoint code");
+  assert(SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint(), "all threads are stopped");
+
+  // Do not throw asynchronous exceptions against the compiler thread
+  // (the compiler thread should not be a Java thread -- fix in 1.4.2)
+  if (is_Compiler_thread()) return;
+
+  // This is a change from JDK 1.1, but JDK 1.2 will also do it:
+  if (java_throwable->is_a(SystemDictionary::threaddeath_klass())) {
+    java_lang_Thread::set_stillborn(threadObj());
+  }
+
+  {
+    // Actually throw the Throwable against the target Thread - however
+    // only if there is no thread death exception installed already.
+    if (_pending_async_exception == NULL || !_pending_async_exception->is_a(SystemDictionary::threaddeath_klass())) {
+      // If the topmost frame is a runtime stub, then we are calling into
+      // OptoRuntime from compiled code. Some runtime stubs (new, monitor_exit..)
+      // must deoptimize the caller before continuing, as the compiled  exception handler table
+      // may not be valid
+      if (has_last_Java_frame()) {
+        frame f = last_frame();
+        if (f.is_runtime_frame() || f.is_safepoint_blob_frame()) {
+          // BiasedLocking needs an updated RegisterMap for the revoke monitors pass
+          RegisterMap reg_map(this, UseBiasedLocking);
+          frame compiled_frame = f.sender(&reg_map);
+          if (compiled_frame.can_be_deoptimized()) {
+            Deoptimization::deoptimize(this, compiled_frame, &reg_map);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Set async. pending exception in thread.
+      set_pending_async_exception(java_throwable);
+
+      if (TraceExceptions) {
+       ResourceMark rm;
+       tty->print_cr("Pending Async. exception installed of type: %s", instanceKlass::cast(_pending_async_exception->klass())->external_name());
+      }
+      // for AbortVMOnException flag
+      NOT_PRODUCT(Exceptions::debug_check_abort(instanceKlass::cast(_pending_async_exception->klass())->external_name()));
+    }
+  }
+
+
+  // Interrupt thread so it will wake up from a potential wait()
+  Thread::interrupt(this);
+}
+
+// External suspension mechanism.
+//
+// Tell the VM to suspend a thread when ever it knows that it does not hold on
+// to any VM_locks and it is at a transition
+// Self-suspension will happen on the transition out of the vm.
+// Catch "this" coming in from JNIEnv pointers when the thread has been freed
+//
+// Guarantees on return:
+//   + Target thread will not execute any new bytecode (that's why we need to
+//     force a safepoint)
+//   + Target thread will not enter any new monitors
+//
+void JavaThread::java_suspend() {
+  { MutexLocker mu(Threads_lock);
+    if (!Threads::includes(this) || is_exiting() || this->threadObj() == NULL) {
+       return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  { MutexLockerEx ml(SR_lock(), Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+    if (!is_external_suspend()) {
+      // a racing resume has cancelled us; bail out now
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // suspend is done
+    uint32_t debug_bits = 0;
+    // Warning: is_ext_suspend_completed() may temporarily drop the
+    // SR_lock to allow the thread to reach a stable thread state if
+    // it is currently in a transient thread state.
+    if (is_ext_suspend_completed(false /* !called_by_wait */,
+                                 SuspendRetryDelay, &debug_bits) ) {
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  VM_ForceSafepoint vm_suspend;
+  VMThread::execute(&vm_suspend);
+}
+
+// Part II of external suspension.
+// A JavaThread self suspends when it detects a pending external suspend
+// request. This is usually on transitions. It is also done in places
+// where continuing to the next transition would surprise the caller,
+// e.g., monitor entry.
+//
+// Returns the number of times that the thread self-suspended.
+//
+// Note: DO NOT call java_suspend_self() when you just want to block current
+//       thread. java_suspend_self() is the second stage of cooperative
+//       suspension for external suspend requests and should only be used
+//       to complete an external suspend request.
+//
+int JavaThread::java_suspend_self() {
+  int ret = 0;
+
+  // we are in the process of exiting so don't suspend
+  if (is_exiting()) {
+     clear_external_suspend();
+     return ret;
+  }
+
+  assert(_anchor.walkable() ||
+    (is_Java_thread() && !((JavaThread*)this)->has_last_Java_frame()),
+    "must have walkable stack");
+
+  MutexLockerEx ml(SR_lock(), Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+
+  assert(!this->is_any_suspended(),
+    "a thread trying to self-suspend should not already be suspended");
+
+  if (this->is_suspend_equivalent()) {
+    // If we are self-suspending as a result of the lifting of a
+    // suspend equivalent condition, then the suspend_equivalent
+    // flag is not cleared until we set the ext_suspended flag so
+    // that wait_for_ext_suspend_completion() returns consistent
+    // results.
+    this->clear_suspend_equivalent();
+  }
+
+  // A racing resume may have cancelled us before we grabbed SR_lock
+  // above. Or another external suspend request could be waiting for us
+  // by the time we return from SR_lock()->wait(). The thread
+  // that requested the suspension may already be trying to walk our
+  // stack and if we return now, we can change the stack out from under
+  // it. This would be a "bad thing (TM)" and cause the stack walker
+  // to crash. We stay self-suspended until there are no more pending
+  // external suspend requests.
+  while (is_external_suspend()) {
+    ret++;
+    this->set_ext_suspended();
+
+    // _ext_suspended flag is cleared by java_resume()
+    while (is_ext_suspended()) {
+      this->SR_lock()->wait(Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return ret;
+}
+
+#ifdef ASSERT
+// verify the JavaThread has not yet been published in the Threads::list, and
+// hence doesn't need protection from concurrent access at this stage
+void JavaThread::verify_not_published() {
+  if (!Threads_lock->owned_by_self()) {
+   MutexLockerEx ml(Threads_lock,  Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+   assert( !Threads::includes(this),
+           "java thread shouldn't have been published yet!");
+  }
+  else {
+   assert( !Threads::includes(this),
+           "java thread shouldn't have been published yet!");
+  }
+}
+#endif
+
+// Slow path when the native==>VM/Java barriers detect a safepoint is in
+// progress or when _suspend_flags is non-zero.
+// Current thread needs to self-suspend if there is a suspend request and/or
+// block if a safepoint is in progress.
+// Async exception ISN'T checked.
+// Note only the ThreadInVMfromNative transition can call this function
+// directly and when thread state is _thread_in_native_trans
+void JavaThread::check_safepoint_and_suspend_for_native_trans(JavaThread *thread) {
+  assert(thread->thread_state() == _thread_in_native_trans, "wrong state");
+
+  JavaThread *curJT = JavaThread::current();
+  bool do_self_suspend = thread->is_external_suspend();
+
+  assert(!curJT->has_last_Java_frame() || curJT->frame_anchor()->walkable(), "Unwalkable stack in native->vm transition");
+
+  // If JNIEnv proxies are allowed, don't self-suspend if the target
+  // thread is not the current thread. In older versions of jdbx, jdbx
+  // threads could call into the VM with another thread's JNIEnv so we
+  // can be here operating on behalf of a suspended thread (4432884).
+  if (do_self_suspend && (!AllowJNIEnvProxy || curJT == thread)) {
+    JavaThreadState state = thread->thread_state();
+
+    // We mark this thread_blocked state as a suspend-equivalent so
+    // that a caller to is_ext_suspend_completed() won't be confused.
+    // The suspend-equivalent state is cleared by java_suspend_self().
+    thread->set_suspend_equivalent();
+
+    // If the safepoint code sees the _thread_in_native_trans state, it will
+    // wait until the thread changes to other thread state. There is no
+    // guarantee on how soon we can obtain the SR_lock and complete the
+    // self-suspend request. It would be a bad idea to let safepoint wait for
+    // too long. Temporarily change the state to _thread_blocked to
+    // let the VM thread know that this thread is ready for GC. The problem
+    // of changing thread state is that safepoint could happen just after
+    // java_suspend_self() returns after being resumed, and VM thread will
+    // see the _thread_blocked state. We must check for safepoint
+    // after restoring the state and make sure we won't leave while a safepoint
+    // is in progress.
+    thread->set_thread_state(_thread_blocked);
+    thread->java_suspend_self();
+    thread->set_thread_state(state);
+    // Make sure new state is seen by VM thread
+    if (os::is_MP()) {
+      if (UseMembar) {
+        // Force a fence between the write above and read below
+        OrderAccess::fence();
+      } else {
+        // Must use this rather than serialization page in particular on Windows
+        InterfaceSupport::serialize_memory(thread);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (SafepointSynchronize::do_call_back()) {
+    // If we are safepointing, then block the caller which may not be
+    // the same as the target thread (see above).
+    SafepointSynchronize::block(curJT);
+  }
+
+  if (thread->is_deopt_suspend()) {
+    thread->clear_deopt_suspend();
+    RegisterMap map(thread, false);
+    frame f = thread->last_frame();
+    while ( f.id() != thread->must_deopt_id() && ! f.is_first_frame()) {
+      f = f.sender(&map);
+    }
+    if (f.id() == thread->must_deopt_id()) {
+      thread->clear_must_deopt_id();
+      // Since we know we're safe to deopt the current state is a safe state
+      f.deoptimize(thread, true);
+    } else {
+      fatal("missed deoptimization!");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Slow path when the native==>VM/Java barriers detect a safepoint is in
+// progress or when _suspend_flags is non-zero.
+// Current thread needs to self-suspend if there is a suspend request and/or
+// block if a safepoint is in progress.
+// Also check for pending async exception (not including unsafe access error).
+// Note only the native==>VM/Java barriers can call this function and when
+// thread state is _thread_in_native_trans.
+void JavaThread::check_special_condition_for_native_trans(JavaThread *thread) {
+  check_safepoint_and_suspend_for_native_trans(thread);
+
+  if (thread->has_async_exception()) {
+    // We are in _thread_in_native_trans state, don't handle unsafe
+    // access error since that may block.
+    thread->check_and_handle_async_exceptions(false);
+  }
+}
+
+// We need to guarantee the Threads_lock here, since resumes are not
+// allowed during safepoint synchronization
+// Can only resume from an external suspension
+void JavaThread::java_resume() {
+  assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);
+
+  // Sanity check: thread is gone, has started exiting or the thread
+  // was not externally suspended.
+  if (!Threads::includes(this) || is_exiting() || !is_external_suspend()) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  MutexLockerEx ml(SR_lock(), Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag);
+
+  clear_external_suspend();
+
+  if (is_ext_suspended()) {
+    clear_ext_suspended();
+    SR_lock()->notify_all();
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::create_stack_guard_pages() {
+  if (! os::uses_stack_guard_pages() || _stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused) return;
+  address low_addr = stack_base() - stack_size();
+  size_t len = (StackYellowPages + StackRedPages) * os::vm_page_size();
+
+  int allocate = os::allocate_stack_guard_pages();
+  // warning("Guarding at " PTR_FORMAT " for len " SIZE_FORMAT "\n", low_addr, len);
+
+  if (allocate && !os::commit_memory((char *) low_addr, len)) {
+    warning("Attempt to allocate stack guard pages failed.");
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (os::guard_memory((char *) low_addr, len)) {
+    _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_enabled;
+  } else {
+    warning("Attempt to protect stack guard pages failed.");
+    if (os::uncommit_memory((char *) low_addr, len)) {
+      warning("Attempt to deallocate stack guard pages failed.");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::remove_stack_guard_pages() {
+  if (_stack_guard_state == stack_guard_unused) return;
+  address low_addr = stack_base() - stack_size();
+  size_t len = (StackYellowPages + StackRedPages) * os::vm_page_size();
+
+  if (os::allocate_stack_guard_pages()) {
+    if (os::uncommit_memory((char *) low_addr, len)) {
+      _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_unused;
+    } else {
+      warning("Attempt to deallocate stack guard pages failed.");
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (_stack_guard_state == stack_guard_unused) return;
+    if (os::unguard_memory((char *) low_addr, len)) {
+      _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_unused;
+    } else {
+        warning("Attempt to unprotect stack guard pages failed.");
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::enable_stack_yellow_zone() {
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused, "must be using guard pages.");
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_enabled, "already enabled");
+
+  // The base notation is from the stacks point of view, growing downward.
+  // We need to adjust it to work correctly with guard_memory()
+  address base = stack_yellow_zone_base() - stack_yellow_zone_size();
+
+  guarantee(base < stack_base(),"Error calculating stack yellow zone");
+  guarantee(base < os::current_stack_pointer(),"Error calculating stack yellow zone");
+
+  if (os::guard_memory((char *) base, stack_yellow_zone_size())) {
+    _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_enabled;
+  } else {
+    warning("Attempt to guard stack yellow zone failed.");
+  }
+  enable_register_stack_guard();
+}
+
+void JavaThread::disable_stack_yellow_zone() {
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused, "must be using guard pages.");
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_yellow_disabled, "already disabled");
+
+  // Simply return if called for a thread that does not use guard pages.
+  if (_stack_guard_state == stack_guard_unused) return;
+
+  // The base notation is from the stacks point of view, growing downward.
+  // We need to adjust it to work correctly with guard_memory()
+  address base = stack_yellow_zone_base() - stack_yellow_zone_size();
+
+  if (os::unguard_memory((char *)base, stack_yellow_zone_size())) {
+    _stack_guard_state = stack_guard_yellow_disabled;
+  } else {
+    warning("Attempt to unguard stack yellow zone failed.");
+  }
+  disable_register_stack_guard();
+}
+
+void JavaThread::enable_stack_red_zone() {
+  // The base notation is from the stacks point of view, growing downward.
+  // We need to adjust it to work correctly with guard_memory()
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused, "must be using guard pages.");
+  address base = stack_red_zone_base() - stack_red_zone_size();
+
+  guarantee(base < stack_base(),"Error calculating stack red zone");
+  guarantee(base < os::current_stack_pointer(),"Error calculating stack red zone");
+
+  if(!os::guard_memory((char *) base, stack_red_zone_size())) {
+    warning("Attempt to guard stack red zone failed.");
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::disable_stack_red_zone() {
+  // The base notation is from the stacks point of view, growing downward.
+  // We need to adjust it to work correctly with guard_memory()
+  assert(_stack_guard_state != stack_guard_unused, "must be using guard pages.");
+  address base = stack_red_zone_base() - stack_red_zone_size();
+  if (!os::unguard_memory((char *)base, stack_red_zone_size())) {
+    warning("Attempt to unguard stack red zone failed.");
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::frames_do(void f(frame*, const RegisterMap* map)) {
+  // ignore is there is no stack
+  if (!has_last_Java_frame()) return;
+  // traverse the stack frames. Starts from top frame.
+  for(StackFrameStream fst(this); !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+    frame* fr = fst.current();
+    f(fr, fst.register_map());
+  }
+}
+
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+// Deoptimization
+// Function for testing deoptimization
+void JavaThread::deoptimize() {
+  // BiasedLocking needs an updated RegisterMap for the revoke monitors pass
+  StackFrameStream fst(this, UseBiasedLocking);
+  bool deopt = false;           // Dump stack only if a deopt actually happens.
+  bool only_at = strlen(DeoptimizeOnlyAt) > 0;
+  // Iterate over all frames in the thread and deoptimize
+  for(; !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+    if(fst.current()->can_be_deoptimized()) {
+
+      if (only_at) {
+        // Deoptimize only at particular bcis.  DeoptimizeOnlyAt
+        // consists of comma or carriage return separated numbers so
+        // search for the current bci in that string.
+        address pc = fst.current()->pc();
+        nmethod* nm =  (nmethod*) fst.current()->cb();
+        ScopeDesc* sd = nm->scope_desc_at( pc);
+        char buffer[8];
+        jio_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%d", sd->bci());
+        size_t len = strlen(buffer);
+        const char * found = strstr(DeoptimizeOnlyAt, buffer);
+        while (found != NULL) {
+          if ((found[len] == ',' || found[len] == '\n' || found[len] == '\0') &&
+              (found == DeoptimizeOnlyAt || found[-1] == ',' || found[-1] == '\n')) {
+            // Check that the bci found is bracketed by terminators.
+            break;
+          }
+          found = strstr(found + 1, buffer);
+        }
+        if (!found) {
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+
+      if (DebugDeoptimization && !deopt) {
+        deopt = true; // One-time only print before deopt
+        tty->print_cr("[BEFORE Deoptimization]");
+        trace_frames();
+        trace_stack();
+      }
+      Deoptimization::deoptimize(this, *fst.current(), fst.register_map());
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (DebugDeoptimization && deopt) {
+    tty->print_cr("[AFTER Deoptimization]");
+    trace_frames();
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Make zombies
+void JavaThread::make_zombies() {
+  for(StackFrameStream fst(this); !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+    if (fst.current()->can_be_deoptimized()) {
+      // it is a Java nmethod
+      nmethod* nm = CodeCache::find_nmethod(fst.current()->pc());
+      nm->make_not_entrant();
+    }
+  }
+}
+#endif // PRODUCT
+
+
+void JavaThread::deoptimized_wrt_marked_nmethods() {
+  if (!has_last_Java_frame()) return;
+  // BiasedLocking needs an updated RegisterMap for the revoke monitors pass
+  StackFrameStream fst(this, UseBiasedLocking);
+  for(; !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+    if (fst.current()->should_be_deoptimized()) {
+      Deoptimization::deoptimize(this, *fst.current(), fst.register_map());
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+// GC support
+static void frame_gc_epilogue(frame* f, const RegisterMap* map) { f->gc_epilogue(); }
+
+void JavaThread::gc_epilogue() {
+  frames_do(frame_gc_epilogue);
+}
+
+
+static void frame_gc_prologue(frame* f, const RegisterMap* map) { f->gc_prologue(); }
+
+void JavaThread::gc_prologue() {
+  frames_do(frame_gc_prologue);
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::oops_do(OopClosure* f) {
+  // The ThreadProfiler oops_do is done from FlatProfiler::oops_do
+  // since there may be more than one thread using each ThreadProfiler.
+
+  // Traverse the GCHandles
+  Thread::oops_do(f);
+
+  assert( (!has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() == 0) ||
+          (has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() > 0), "wrong java_sp info!");
+
+  if (has_last_Java_frame()) {
+
+    // Traverse the privileged stack
+    if (_privileged_stack_top != NULL) {
+      _privileged_stack_top->oops_do(f);
+    }
+
+    // traverse the registered growable array
+    if (_array_for_gc != NULL) {
+      for (int index = 0; index < _array_for_gc->length(); index++) {
+        f->do_oop(_array_for_gc->adr_at(index));
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Traverse the monitor chunks
+    for (MonitorChunk* chunk = monitor_chunks(); chunk != NULL; chunk = chunk->next()) {
+      chunk->oops_do(f);
+    }
+
+    // Traverse the execution stack
+    for(StackFrameStream fst(this); !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+      fst.current()->oops_do(f, fst.register_map());
+    }
+  }
+
+  // callee_target is never live across a gc point so NULL it here should
+  // it still contain a methdOop.
+
+  set_callee_target(NULL);
+
+  assert(vframe_array_head() == NULL, "deopt in progress at a safepoint!");
+  // If we have deferred set_locals there might be oops waiting to be
+  // written
+  GrowableArray<jvmtiDeferredLocalVariableSet*>* list = deferred_locals();
+  if (list != NULL) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < list->length(); i++) {
+      list->at(i)->oops_do(f);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Traverse instance variables at the end since the GC may be moving things
+  // around using this function
+  f->do_oop((oop*) &_threadObj);
+  f->do_oop((oop*) &_vm_result);
+  f->do_oop((oop*) &_vm_result_2);
+  f->do_oop((oop*) &_exception_oop);
+  f->do_oop((oop*) &_pending_async_exception);
+
+  if (jvmti_thread_state() != NULL) {
+    jvmti_thread_state()->oops_do(f);
+  }
+}
+
+void JavaThread::nmethods_do() {
+  // Traverse the GCHandles
+  Thread::nmethods_do();
+
+  assert( (!has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() == 0) ||
+          (has_last_Java_frame() && java_call_counter() > 0), "wrong java_sp info!");
+
+  if (has_last_Java_frame()) {
+    // Traverse the execution stack
+    for(StackFrameStream fst(this); !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+      fst.current()->nmethods_do();
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Printing
+const char* _get_thread_state_name(JavaThreadState _thread_state) {
+  switch (_thread_state) {
+  case _thread_uninitialized:     return "_thread_uninitialized";
+  case _thread_new:               return "_thread_new";
+  case _thread_new_trans:         return "_thread_new_trans";
+  case _thread_in_native:         return "_thread_in_native";
+  case _thread_in_native_trans:   return "_thread_in_native_trans";
+  case _thread_in_vm:             return "_thread_in_vm";
+  case _thread_in_vm_trans:       return "_thread_in_vm_trans";
+  case _thread_in_Java:           return "_thread_in_Java";
+  case _thread_in_Java_trans:     return "_thread_in_Java_trans";
+  case _thread_blocked:           return "_thread_blocked";
+  case _thread_blocked_trans:     return "_thread_blocked_trans";
+  default:                        return "unknown thread state";
+  }
+}
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+void JavaThread::print_thread_state_on(outputStream *st) const {
+  st->print_cr("   JavaThread state: %s", _get_thread_state_name(_thread_state));
+};
+void JavaThread::print_thread_state() const {
+  print_thread_state_on(tty);
+};
+#endif // PRODUCT
+
+// Called by Threads::print() for VM_PrintThreads operation
+void JavaThread::print_on(outputStream *st) const {
+  st->print("\"%s\" ", get_thread_name());
+  oop thread_oop = threadObj();
+  if (thread_oop != NULL && java_lang_Thread::is_daemon(thread_oop))  st->print("daemon ");
+  Thread::print_on(st);
+  // print guess for valid stack memory region (assume 4K pages); helps lock debugging
+  st->print_cr("[" INTPTR_FORMAT ".." INTPTR_FORMAT "]", (intptr_t)last_Java_sp() & ~right_n_bits(12), highest_lock());
+  if (thread_oop != NULL && JDK_Version::is_gte_jdk15x_version()) {
+    st->print_cr("   java.lang.Thread.State: %s", java_lang_Thread::thread_status_name(thread_oop));
+  }
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+  print_thread_state_on(st);
+  _safepoint_state->print_on(st);
+#endif // PRODUCT
+}
+
+// Called by fatal error handler. The difference between this and
+// JavaThread::print() is that we can't grab lock or allocate memory.
+void JavaThread::print_on_error(outputStream* st, char *buf, int buflen) const {
+  st->print("JavaThread \"%s\"",  get_thread_name_string(buf, buflen));
+  oop thread_obj = threadObj();
+  if (thread_obj != NULL) {
+     if (java_lang_Thread::is_daemon(thread_obj)) st->print(" daemon");
+  }
+  st->print(" [");
+  st->print("%s", _get_thread_state_name(_thread_state));
+  if (osthread()) {
+    st->print(", id=%d", osthread()->thread_id());
+  }
+  st->print(", stack(" PTR_FORMAT "," PTR_FORMAT ")",
+            _stack_base - _stack_size, _stack_base);
+  st->print("]");
+  return;
+}
+
+// Verification
+
+static void frame_verify(frame* f, const RegisterMap *map) { f->verify(map); }
+
+void JavaThread::verify() {
+  // Verify oops in the thread.
+  oops_do(&VerifyOopClosure::verify_oop);
+
+  // Verify the stack frames.
+  frames_do(frame_verify);
+}
+
+// CR 6300358 (sub-CR 2137150)
+// Most callers of this method assume that it can't return NULL but a
+// thread may not have a name whilst it is in the process of attaching to
+// the VM - see CR 6412693, and there are places where a JavaThread can be
+// seen prior to having it's threadObj set (eg JNI attaching threads and
+// if vm exit occurs during initialization). These cases can all be accounted
+// for such that this method never returns NULL.
+const char* JavaThread::get_thread_name() const {
+#ifdef ASSERT
+  // early safepoints can hit while current thread does not yet have TLS
+  if (!SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) {
+    Thread *cur = Thread::current();
+    if (!(cur->is_Java_thread() && cur == this)) {
+      // Current JavaThreads are allowed to get their own name without
+      // the Threads_lock.
+      assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);
+    }
+  }
+#endif // ASSERT
+    return get_thread_name_string();
+}
+
+// Returns a non-NULL representation of this thread's name, or a suitable
+// descriptive string if there is no set name
+const char* JavaThread::get_thread_name_string(char* buf, int buflen) const {
+  const char* name_str;
+  oop thread_obj = threadObj();
+  if (thread_obj != NULL) {
+    typeArrayOop name = java_lang_Thread::name(thread_obj);
+    if (name != NULL) {
+      if (buf == NULL) {
+        name_str = UNICODE::as_utf8((jchar*) name->base(T_CHAR), name->length());
+      }
+      else {
+        name_str = UNICODE::as_utf8((jchar*) name->base(T_CHAR), name->length(), buf, buflen);
+      }
+    }
+    else if (is_attaching()) { // workaround for 6412693 - see 6404306
+      name_str = "<no-name - thread is attaching>";
+    }
+    else {
+      name_str = Thread::name();
+    }
+  }
+  else {
+    name_str = Thread::name();
+  }
+  assert(name_str != NULL, "unexpected NULL thread name");
+  return name_str;
+}
+
+
+const char* JavaThread::get_threadgroup_name() const {
+  debug_only(if (JavaThread::current() != this) assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);)
+  oop thread_obj = threadObj();
+  if (thread_obj != NULL) {
+    oop thread_group = java_lang_Thread::threadGroup(thread_obj);
+    if (thread_group != NULL) {
+      typeArrayOop name = java_lang_ThreadGroup::name(thread_group);
+      // ThreadGroup.name can be null
+      if (name != NULL) {
+        const char* str = UNICODE::as_utf8((jchar*) name->base(T_CHAR), name->length());
+        return str;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+const char* JavaThread::get_parent_name() const {
+  debug_only(if (JavaThread::current() != this) assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);)
+  oop thread_obj = threadObj();
+  if (thread_obj != NULL) {
+    oop thread_group = java_lang_Thread::threadGroup(thread_obj);
+    if (thread_group != NULL) {
+      oop parent = java_lang_ThreadGroup::parent(thread_group);
+      if (parent != NULL) {
+        typeArrayOop name = java_lang_ThreadGroup::name(parent);
+        // ThreadGroup.name can be null
+        if (name != NULL) {
+          const char* str = UNICODE::as_utf8((jchar*) name->base(T_CHAR), name->length());
+          return str;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+ThreadPriority JavaThread::java_priority() const {
+  oop thr_oop = threadObj();
+  if (thr_oop == NULL) return NormPriority; // Bootstrapping
+  ThreadPriority priority = java_lang_Thread::priority(thr_oop);
+  assert(MinPriority <= priority && priority <= MaxPriority, "sanity check");
+  return priority;
+}
+
+void JavaThread::prepare(jobject jni_thread, ThreadPriority prio) {
+
+  assert(Threads_lock->owner() == Thread::current(), "must have threads lock");
+  // Link Java Thread object <-> C++ Thread
+
+  // Get the C++ thread object (an oop) from the JNI handle (a jthread)
+  // and put it into a new Handle.  The Handle "thread_oop" can then
+  // be used to pass the C++ thread object to other methods.
+
+  // Set the Java level thread object (jthread) field of the
+  // new thread (a JavaThread *) to C++ thread object using the
+  // "thread_oop" handle.
+
+  // Set the thread field (a JavaThread *) of the
+  // oop representing the java_lang_Thread to the new thread (a JavaThread *).
+
+  Handle thread_oop(Thread::current(),
+                    JNIHandles::resolve_non_null(jni_thread));
+  assert(instanceKlass::cast(thread_oop->klass())->is_linked(),
+    "must be initialized");
+  set_threadObj(thread_oop());
+  java_lang_Thread::set_thread(thread_oop(), this);
+
+  if (prio == NoPriority) {
+    prio = java_lang_Thread::priority(thread_oop());
+    assert(prio != NoPriority, "A valid priority should be present");
+  }
+
+  // Push the Java priority down to the native thread; needs Threads_lock
+  Thread::set_priority(this, prio);
+
+  // Add the new thread to the Threads list and set it in motion.
+  // We must have threads lock in order to call Threads::add.
+  // It is crucial that we do not block before the thread is
+  // added to the Threads list for if a GC happens, then the java_thread oop
+  // will not be visited by GC.
+  Threads::add(this);
+}
+
+oop JavaThread::current_park_blocker() {
+  // Support for JSR-166 locks
+  oop thread_oop = threadObj();
+  if (thread_oop != NULL && JDK_Version::supports_thread_park_blocker()) {
+    return java_lang_Thread::park_blocker(thread_oop);
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::print_stack_on(outputStream* st) {
+  if (!has_last_Java_frame()) return;
+  ResourceMark rm;
+  HandleMark   hm;
+
+  RegisterMap reg_map(this);
+  vframe* start_vf = last_java_vframe(&reg_map);
+  int count = 0;
+  for (vframe* f = start_vf; f; f = f->sender() ) {
+    if (f->is_java_frame()) {
+      javaVFrame* jvf = javaVFrame::cast(f);
+      java_lang_Throwable::print_stack_element(st, jvf->method(), jvf->bci());
+
+      // Print out lock information
+      if (JavaMonitorsInStackTrace) {
+        jvf->print_lock_info_on(st, count);
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Ignore non-Java frames
+    }
+
+    // Bail-out case for too deep stacks
+    count++;
+    if (MaxJavaStackTraceDepth == count) return;
+  }
+}
+
+
+// JVMTI PopFrame support
+void JavaThread::popframe_preserve_args(ByteSize size_in_bytes, void* start) {
+  assert(_popframe_preserved_args == NULL, "should not wipe out old PopFrame preserved arguments");
+  if (in_bytes(size_in_bytes) != 0) {
+    _popframe_preserved_args = NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, in_bytes(size_in_bytes));
+    _popframe_preserved_args_size = in_bytes(size_in_bytes);
+    Copy::conjoint_bytes(start, _popframe_preserved_args, _popframe_preserved_args_size);
+  }
+}
+
+void* JavaThread::popframe_preserved_args() {
+  return _popframe_preserved_args;
+}
+
+ByteSize JavaThread::popframe_preserved_args_size() {
+  return in_ByteSize(_popframe_preserved_args_size);
+}
+
+WordSize JavaThread::popframe_preserved_args_size_in_words() {
+  int sz = in_bytes(popframe_preserved_args_size());
+  assert(sz % wordSize == 0, "argument size must be multiple of wordSize");
+  return in_WordSize(sz / wordSize);
+}
+
+void JavaThread::popframe_free_preserved_args() {
+  assert(_popframe_preserved_args != NULL, "should not free PopFrame preserved arguments twice");
+  FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY(char, (char*) _popframe_preserved_args);
+  _popframe_preserved_args = NULL;
+  _popframe_preserved_args_size = 0;
+}
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+
+void JavaThread::trace_frames() {
+  tty->print_cr("[Describe stack]");
+  int frame_no = 1;
+  for(StackFrameStream fst(this); !fst.is_done(); fst.next()) {
+    tty->print("  %d. ", frame_no++);
+    fst.current()->print_value_on(tty,this);
+    tty->cr();
+  }
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::trace_stack_from(vframe* start_vf) {
+  ResourceMark rm;
+  int vframe_no = 1;
+  for (vframe* f = start_vf; f; f = f->sender() ) {
+    if (f->is_java_frame()) {
+      javaVFrame::cast(f)->print_activation(vframe_no++);
+    } else {
+      f->print();
+    }
+    if (vframe_no > StackPrintLimit) {
+      tty->print_cr("...<more frames>...");
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+void JavaThread::trace_stack() {
+  if (!has_last_Java_frame()) return;
+  ResourceMark rm;
+  HandleMark   hm;
+  RegisterMap reg_map(this);
+  trace_stack_from(last_java_vframe(&reg_map));
+}
+
+
+#endif // PRODUCT
+
+
+javaVFrame* JavaThread::last_java_vframe(RegisterMap *reg_map) {
+  assert(reg_map != NULL, "a map must be given");
+  frame f = last_frame();
+  for (vframe* vf = vframe::new_vframe(&f, reg_map, this); vf; vf = vf->sender() ) {
+    if (vf->is_java_frame()) return javaVFrame::cast(vf);
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+
+klassOop JavaThread::security_get_caller_class(int depth) {
+  vframeStream vfst(this);
+  vfst.security_get_caller_frame(depth);
+  if (!vfst.at_end()) {
+    return vfst.method()->method_holder();
+  }
+  return NULL;
+}
+
+static void compiler_thread_entry(JavaThread* thread, TRAPS) {
+  assert(thread->is_Compiler_thread(), "must be compiler thread");
+  CompileBroker::compiler_thread_loop();
+}
+
+// Create a CompilerThread
+CompilerThread::CompilerThread(CompileQueue* queue, CompilerCounters* counters)
+: JavaThread(&compiler_thread_entry) {
+  _env   = NULL;
+  _log   = NULL;
+  _task  = NULL;
+  _queue = queue;
+  _counters = counters;
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+  _ideal_graph_printer = NULL;
+#endif
+}
+
+
+// ======= Threads ========
+
+// The Threads class links together all active threads, and provides
+// operations over all threads.  It is protected by its own Mutex
+// lock, which is also used in other contexts to protect thread
+// operations from having the thread being operated on from exiting
+// and going away unexpectedly (e.g., safepoint synchronization)
+
+JavaThread* Threads::_thread_list = NULL;
+int         Threads::_number_of_threads = 0;
+int         Threads::_number_of_non_daemon_threads = 0;
+int         Threads::_return_code = 0;
+size_t      JavaThread::_stack_size_at_create = 0;
+
+// All JavaThreads
+#define ALL_JAVA_THREADS(X) for (JavaThread* X = _thread_list; X; X = X->next())
+
+void os_stream();
+
+// All JavaThreads + all non-JavaThreads (i.e., every thread in the system)
+void Threads::threads_do(ThreadClosure* tc) {
+  assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);
+  // ALL_JAVA_THREADS iterates through all JavaThreads
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    tc->do_thread(p);
+  }
+  // Someday we could have a table or list of all non-JavaThreads.
+  // For now, just manually iterate through them.
+  tc->do_thread(VMThread::vm_thread());
+  Universe::heap()->gc_threads_do(tc);
+  tc->do_thread(WatcherThread::watcher_thread());
+  // If CompilerThreads ever become non-JavaThreads, add them here
+}
+
+jint Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs* args, bool* canTryAgain) {
+
+  // Check version
+  if (!is_supported_jni_version(args->version)) return JNI_EVERSION;
+
+  // Initialize the output stream module
+  ostream_init();
+
+  // Process java launcher properties.
+  Arguments::process_sun_java_launcher_properties(args);
+
+  // Initialize the os module before using TLS
+  os::init();
+
+  // Initialize system properties.
+  Arguments::init_system_properties();
+
+  // Parse arguments
+  jint parse_result = Arguments::parse(args);
+  if (parse_result != JNI_OK) return parse_result;
+
+  if (PauseAtStartup) {
+    os::pause();
+  }
+
+  HS_DTRACE_PROBE(hotspot, vm__init__begin);
+
+  // Record VM creation timing statistics
+  TraceVmCreationTime create_vm_timer;
+  create_vm_timer.start();
+
+  // Timing (must come after argument parsing)
+  TraceTime timer("Create VM", TraceStartupTime);
+
+  // Initialize the os module after parsing the args
+  jint os_init_2_result = os::init_2();
+  if (os_init_2_result != JNI_OK) return os_init_2_result;
+
+  // Initialize output stream logging
+  ostream_init_log();
+
+  // Convert -Xrun to -agentlib: if there is no JVM_OnLoad
+  // Must be before create_vm_init_agents()
+  if (Arguments::init_libraries_at_startup()) {
+    convert_vm_init_libraries_to_agents();
+  }
+
+  // Launch -agentlib/-agentpath and converted -Xrun agents
+  if (Arguments::init_agents_at_startup()) {
+    create_vm_init_agents();
+  }
+
+  // Initialize Threads state
+  _thread_list = NULL;
+  _number_of_threads = 0;
+  _number_of_non_daemon_threads = 0;
+
+  // Initialize TLS
+  ThreadLocalStorage::init();
+
+  // Initialize global data structures and create system classes in heap
+  vm_init_globals();
+
+  // Attach the main thread to this os thread
+  JavaThread* main_thread = new JavaThread();
+  main_thread->set_thread_state(_thread_in_vm);
+  // must do this before set_active_handles and initialize_thread_local_storage
+  // Note: on solaris initialize_thread_local_storage() will (indirectly)
+  // change the stack size recorded here to one based on the java thread
+  // stacksize. This adjusted size is what is used to figure the placement
+  // of the guard pages.
+  main_thread->record_stack_base_and_size();
+  main_thread->initialize_thread_local_storage();
+
+  main_thread->set_active_handles(JNIHandleBlock::allocate_block());
+
+  if (!main_thread->set_as_starting_thread()) {
+    vm_shutdown_during_initialization(
+      "Failed necessary internal allocation. Out of swap space");
+    delete main_thread;
+    *canTryAgain = false; // don't let caller call JNI_CreateJavaVM again
+    return JNI_ENOMEM;
+  }
+
+  // Enable guard page *after* os::create_main_thread(), otherwise it would
+  // crash Linux VM, see notes in os_linux.cpp.
+  main_thread->create_stack_guard_pages();
+
+  // Initialize Java-Leve synchronization subsystem
+  ObjectSynchronizer::Initialize() ;
+
+  // Initialize global modules
+  jint status = init_globals();
+  if (status != JNI_OK) {
+    delete main_thread;
+    *canTryAgain = false; // don't let caller call JNI_CreateJavaVM again
+    return status;
+  }
+
+  HandleMark hm;
+
+  { MutexLocker mu(Threads_lock);
+    Threads::add(main_thread);
+  }
+
+  // Any JVMTI raw monitors entered in onload will transition into
+  // real raw monitor. VM is setup enough here for raw monitor enter.
+  JvmtiExport::transition_pending_onload_raw_monitors();
+
+  if (VerifyBeforeGC &&
+      Universe::heap()->total_collections() >= VerifyGCStartAt) {
+    Universe::heap()->prepare_for_verify();
+    Universe::verify();   // make sure we're starting with a clean slate
+  }
+
+  // Create the VMThread
+  { TraceTime timer("Start VMThread", TraceStartupTime);
+    VMThread::create();
+    Thread* vmthread = VMThread::vm_thread();
+
+    if (!os::create_thread(vmthread, os::vm_thread))
+      vm_exit_during_initialization("Cannot create VM thread. Out of system resources.");
+
+    // Wait for the VM thread to become ready, and VMThread::run to initialize
+    // Monitors can have spurious returns, must always check another state flag
+    {
+      MutexLocker ml(Notify_lock);
+      os::start_thread(vmthread);
+      while (vmthread->active_handles() == NULL) {
+        Notify_lock->wait();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  assert (Universe::is_fully_initialized(), "not initialized");
+  EXCEPTION_MARK;
+
+  // At this point, the Universe is initialized, but we have not executed
+  // any byte code.  Now is a good time (the only time) to dump out the
+  // internal state of the JVM for sharing.
+
+  if (DumpSharedSpaces) {
+    Universe::heap()->preload_and_dump(CHECK_0);
+    ShouldNotReachHere();
+  }
+
+  // Always call even when there are not JVMTI environments yet, since environments
+  // may be attached late and JVMTI must track phases of VM execution
+  JvmtiExport::enter_start_phase();
+
+  // Notify JVMTI agents that VM has started (JNI is up) - nop if no agents.
+  JvmtiExport::post_vm_start();
+
+  {
+    TraceTime timer("Initialize java.lang classes", TraceStartupTime);
+
+    if (EagerXrunInit && Arguments::init_libraries_at_startup()) {
+      create_vm_init_libraries();
+    }
+
+    if (InitializeJavaLangString) {
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_String(), CHECK_0);
+    } else {
+      warning("java.lang.String not initialized");
+    }
+
+    // Initialize java_lang.System (needed before creating the thread)
+    if (InitializeJavaLangSystem) {
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_System(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ThreadGroup(), CHECK_0);
+      Handle thread_group = create_initial_thread_group(CHECK_0);
+      Universe::set_main_thread_group(thread_group());
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Thread(), CHECK_0);
+      oop thread_object = create_initial_thread(thread_group, main_thread, CHECK_0);
+      main_thread->set_threadObj(thread_object);
+      // Set thread status to running since main thread has
+      // been started and running.
+      java_lang_Thread::set_thread_status(thread_object,
+                                          java_lang_Thread::RUNNABLE);
+
+      // The VM preresolve methods to these classes. Make sure that get initialized
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_reflect_Method(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ref_Finalizer(),  CHECK_0);
+      // The VM creates & returns objects of this class. Make sure it's initialized.
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Class(), CHECK_0);
+      call_initializeSystemClass(CHECK_0);
+    } else {
+      warning("java.lang.System not initialized");
+    }
+
+    // an instance of OutOfMemory exception has been allocated earlier
+    if (InitializeJavaLangExceptionsErrors) {
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_OutOfMemoryError(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_NullPointerException(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ClassCastException(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ArrayStoreException(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_ArithmeticException(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_StackOverflowError(), CHECK_0);
+      initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_IllegalMonitorStateException(), CHECK_0);
+    } else {
+      warning("java.lang.OutOfMemoryError has not been initialized");
+      warning("java.lang.NullPointerException has not been initialized");
+      warning("java.lang.ClassCastException has not been initialized");
+      warning("java.lang.ArrayStoreException has not been initialized");
+      warning("java.lang.ArithmeticException has not been initialized");
+      warning("java.lang.StackOverflowError has not been initialized");
+    }
+  }
+
+  // See        : bugid 4211085.
+  // Background : the static initializer of java.lang.Compiler tries to read
+  //              property"java.compiler" and read & write property "java.vm.info".
+  //              When a security manager is installed through the command line
+  //              option "-Djava.security.manager", the above properties are not
+  //              readable and the static initializer for java.lang.Compiler fails
+  //              resulting in a NoClassDefFoundError.  This can happen in any
+  //              user code which calls methods in java.lang.Compiler.
+  // Hack :       the hack is to pre-load and initialize this class, so that only
+  //              system domains are on the stack when the properties are read.
+  //              Currently even the AWT code has calls to methods in java.lang.Compiler.
+  //              On the classic VM, java.lang.Compiler is loaded very early to load the JIT.
+  // Future Fix : the best fix is to grant everyone permissions to read "java.compiler" and
+  //              read and write"java.vm.info" in the default policy file. See bugid 4211383
+  //              Once that is done, we should remove this hack.
+  initialize_class(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Compiler(), CHECK_0);
+
+  // More hackery - the static initializer of java.lang.Compiler adds the string "nojit" to
+  // the java.vm.info property if no jit gets loaded through java.lang.Compiler (the hotspot
+  // compiler does not get loaded through java.lang.Compiler).  "java -version" with the
+  // hotspot vm says "nojit" all the time which is confusing.  So, we reset it here.
+  // This should also be taken out as soon as 4211383 gets fixed.
+  reset_vm_info_property(CHECK_0);
+
+  quicken_jni_functions();
+
+  // Set flag that basic initialization has completed. Used by exceptions and various
+  // debug stuff, that does not work until all basic classes have been initialized.
+  set_init_completed();
+
+  HS_DTRACE_PROBE(hotspot, vm__init__end);
+
+  // record VM initialization completion time
+  Management::record_vm_init_completed();
+
+  // Compute system loader. Note that this has to occur after set_init_completed, since
+  // valid exceptions may be thrown in the process.
+  // Note that we do not use CHECK_0 here since we are inside an EXCEPTION_MARK and
+  // set_init_completed has just been called, causing exceptions not to be shortcut
+  // anymore. We call vm_exit_during_initialization directly instead.
+  SystemDictionary::compute_java_system_loader(THREAD);
+  if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+    vm_exit_during_initialization(Handle(THREAD, PENDING_EXCEPTION));
+  }
+
+#ifndef SERIALGC
+  // Support for ConcurrentMarkSweep. This should be cleaned up
+  // and better encapsulated. XXX YSR
+  if (UseConcMarkSweepGC) {
+    ConcurrentMarkSweepThread::makeSurrogateLockerThread(THREAD);
+    if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+      vm_exit_during_initialization(Handle(THREAD, PENDING_EXCEPTION));
+    }
+  }
+#endif // SERIALGC
+
+  // Always call even when there are not JVMTI environments yet, since environments
+  // may be attached late and JVMTI must track phases of VM execution
+  JvmtiExport::enter_live_phase();
+
+  // Signal Dispatcher needs to be started before VMInit event is posted
+  os::signal_init();
+
+  // Start Attach Listener if +StartAttachListener or it can't be started lazily
+  if (!DisableAttachMechanism) {
+    if (StartAttachListener || AttachListener::init_at_startup()) {
+      AttachListener::init();
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Launch -Xrun agents
+  // Must be done in the JVMTI live phase so that for backward compatibility the JDWP
+  // back-end can launch with -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp.
+  if (!EagerXrunInit && Arguments::init_libraries_at_startup()) {
+    create_vm_init_libraries();
+  }
+
+  // Notify JVMTI agents that VM initialization is complete - nop if no agents.
+  JvmtiExport::post_vm_initialized();
+
+  Chunk::start_chunk_pool_cleaner_task();
+
+  // initialize compiler(s)
+  CompileBroker::compilation_init();
+
+  Management::initialize(THREAD);
+  if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+    // management agent fails to start possibly due to
+    // configuration problem and is responsible for printing
+    // stack trace if appropriate. Simply exit VM.
+    vm_exit(1);
+  }
+
+  if (Arguments::has_profile())       FlatProfiler::engage(main_thread, true);
+  if (Arguments::has_alloc_profile()) AllocationProfiler::engage();
+  if (MemProfiling)                   MemProfiler::engage();
+  StatSampler::engage();
+  if (CheckJNICalls)                  JniPeriodicChecker::engage();
+  if (CacheTimeMillis)                TimeMillisUpdateTask::engage();
+
+  BiasedLocking::init();
+
+
+  // Start up the WatcherThread if there are any periodic tasks
+  // NOTE:  All PeriodicTasks should be registered by now. If they
+  //   aren't, late joiners might appear to start slowly (we might
+  //   take a while to process their first tick).
+  if (PeriodicTask::num_tasks() > 0) {
+    WatcherThread::start();
+  }
+
+  create_vm_timer.end();
+  return JNI_OK;
+}
+
+// type for the Agent_OnLoad and JVM_OnLoad entry points
+extern "C" {
+  typedef jint (JNICALL *OnLoadEntry_t)(JavaVM *, char *, void *);
+}
+// Find a command line agent library and return its entry point for
+//         -agentlib:  -agentpath:   -Xrun
+// num_symbol_entries must be passed-in since only the caller knows the number of symbols in the array.
+static OnLoadEntry_t lookup_on_load(AgentLibrary* agent, const char *on_load_symbols[], size_t num_symbol_entries) {
+  OnLoadEntry_t on_load_entry = NULL;
+  void *library = agent->os_lib();  // check if we have looked it up before
+
+  if (library == NULL) {
+    char buffer[JVM_MAXPATHLEN];
+    char ebuf[1024];
+    const char *name = agent->name();
+
+    if (agent->is_absolute_path()) {
+      library = hpi::dll_load(name, ebuf, sizeof ebuf);
+      if (library == NULL) {
+        // If we can't find the agent, exit.
+        vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not find agent library in absolute path", name);
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Try to load the agent from the standard dll directory
+      hpi::dll_build_name(buffer, sizeof(buffer), Arguments::get_dll_dir(), name);
+      library = hpi::dll_load(buffer, ebuf, sizeof ebuf);
+#ifdef KERNEL
+      // Download instrument dll
+      if (library == NULL && strcmp(name, "instrument") == 0) {
+        char *props = Arguments::get_kernel_properties();
+        char *home  = Arguments::get_java_home();
+        const char *fmt   = "%s/bin/java %s -Dkernel.background.download=false"
+                      " sun.jkernel.DownloadManager -download client_jvm";
+        int length = strlen(props) + strlen(home) + strlen(fmt) + 1;
+        char *cmd = AllocateHeap(length);
+        jio_snprintf(cmd, length, fmt, home, props);
+        int status = os::fork_and_exec(cmd);
+        FreeHeap(props);
+        FreeHeap(cmd);
+        if (status == -1) {
+          warning(cmd);
+          vm_exit_during_initialization("fork_and_exec failed: %s",
+                                         strerror(errno));
+        }
+        // when this comes back the instrument.dll should be where it belongs.
+        library = hpi::dll_load(buffer, ebuf, sizeof ebuf);
+      }
+#endif // KERNEL
+      if (library == NULL) { // Try the local directory
+        char ns[1] = {0};
+        hpi::dll_build_name(buffer, sizeof(buffer), ns, name);
+        library = hpi::dll_load(buffer, ebuf, sizeof ebuf);
+        if (library == NULL) {
+          // If we can't find the agent, exit.
+          vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not find agent library on the library path or in the local directory", name);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    agent->set_os_lib(library);
+  }
+
+  // Find the OnLoad function.
+  for (size_t symbol_index = 0; symbol_index < num_symbol_entries; symbol_index++) {
+    on_load_entry = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(OnLoadEntry_t, hpi::dll_lookup(library, on_load_symbols[symbol_index]));
+    if (on_load_entry != NULL) break;
+  }
+  return on_load_entry;
+}
+
+// Find the JVM_OnLoad entry point
+static OnLoadEntry_t lookup_jvm_on_load(AgentLibrary* agent) {
+  const char *on_load_symbols[] = JVM_ONLOAD_SYMBOLS;
+  return lookup_on_load(agent, on_load_symbols, sizeof(on_load_symbols) / sizeof(char*));
+}
+
+// Find the Agent_OnLoad entry point
+static OnLoadEntry_t lookup_agent_on_load(AgentLibrary* agent) {
+  const char *on_load_symbols[] = AGENT_ONLOAD_SYMBOLS;
+  return lookup_on_load(agent, on_load_symbols, sizeof(on_load_symbols) / sizeof(char*));
+}
+
+// For backwards compatibility with -Xrun
+// Convert libraries with no JVM_OnLoad, but which have Agent_OnLoad to be
+// treated like -agentpath:
+// Must be called before agent libraries are created
+void Threads::convert_vm_init_libraries_to_agents() {
+  AgentLibrary* agent;
+  AgentLibrary* next;
+
+  for (agent = Arguments::libraries(); agent != NULL; agent = next) {
+    next = agent->next();  // cache the next agent now as this agent may get moved off this list
+    OnLoadEntry_t on_load_entry = lookup_jvm_on_load(agent);
+
+    // If there is an JVM_OnLoad function it will get called later,
+    // otherwise see if there is an Agent_OnLoad
+    if (on_load_entry == NULL) {
+      on_load_entry = lookup_agent_on_load(agent);
+      if (on_load_entry != NULL) {
+        // switch it to the agent list -- so that Agent_OnLoad will be called,
+        // JVM_OnLoad won't be attempted and Agent_OnUnload will
+        Arguments::convert_library_to_agent(agent);
+      } else {
+        vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not find JVM_OnLoad or Agent_OnLoad function in the library", agent->name());
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Create agents for -agentlib:  -agentpath:  and converted -Xrun
+// Invokes Agent_OnLoad
+// Called very early -- before JavaThreads exist
+void Threads::create_vm_init_agents() {
+  extern struct JavaVM_ main_vm;
+  AgentLibrary* agent;
+
+  JvmtiExport::enter_onload_phase();
+  for (agent = Arguments::agents(); agent != NULL; agent = agent->next()) {
+    OnLoadEntry_t  on_load_entry = lookup_agent_on_load(agent);
+
+    if (on_load_entry != NULL) {
+      // Invoke the Agent_OnLoad function
+      jint err = (*on_load_entry)(&main_vm, agent->options(), NULL);
+      if (err != JNI_OK) {
+        vm_exit_during_initialization("agent library failed to init", agent->name());
+      }
+    } else {
+      vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not find Agent_OnLoad function in the agent library", agent->name());
+    }
+  }
+  JvmtiExport::enter_primordial_phase();
+}
+
+extern "C" {
+  typedef void (JNICALL *Agent_OnUnload_t)(JavaVM *);
+}
+
+void Threads::shutdown_vm_agents() {
+  // Send any Agent_OnUnload notifications
+  const char *on_unload_symbols[] = AGENT_ONUNLOAD_SYMBOLS;
+  extern struct JavaVM_ main_vm;
+  for (AgentLibrary* agent = Arguments::agents(); agent != NULL; agent = agent->next()) {
+
+    // Find the Agent_OnUnload function.
+    for (uint symbol_index = 0; symbol_index < ARRAY_SIZE(on_unload_symbols); symbol_index++) {
+      Agent_OnUnload_t unload_entry = CAST_TO_FN_PTR(Agent_OnUnload_t,
+               hpi::dll_lookup(agent->os_lib(), on_unload_symbols[symbol_index]));
+
+      // Invoke the Agent_OnUnload function
+      if (unload_entry != NULL) {
+        JavaThread* thread = JavaThread::current();
+        ThreadToNativeFromVM ttn(thread);
+        HandleMark hm(thread);
+        (*unload_entry)(&main_vm);
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Called for after the VM is initialized for -Xrun libraries which have not been converted to agent libraries
+// Invokes JVM_OnLoad
+void Threads::create_vm_init_libraries() {
+  extern struct JavaVM_ main_vm;
+  AgentLibrary* agent;
+
+  for (agent = Arguments::libraries(); agent != NULL; agent = agent->next()) {
+    OnLoadEntry_t on_load_entry = lookup_jvm_on_load(agent);
+
+    if (on_load_entry != NULL) {
+      // Invoke the JVM_OnLoad function
+      JavaThread* thread = JavaThread::current();
+      ThreadToNativeFromVM ttn(thread);
+      HandleMark hm(thread);
+      jint err = (*on_load_entry)(&main_vm, agent->options(), NULL);
+      if (err != JNI_OK) {
+        vm_exit_during_initialization("-Xrun library failed to init", agent->name());
+      }
+    } else {
+      vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not find JVM_OnLoad function in -Xrun library", agent->name());
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Last thread running calls java.lang.Shutdown.shutdown()
+void JavaThread::invoke_shutdown_hooks() {
+  HandleMark hm(this);
+
+  // We could get here with a pending exception, if so clear it now.
+  if (this->has_pending_exception()) {
+    this->clear_pending_exception();
+  }
+
+  EXCEPTION_MARK;
+  klassOop k =
+    SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null(vmSymbolHandles::java_lang_Shutdown(),
+                                      THREAD);
+  if (k != NULL) {
+    // SystemDictionary::resolve_or_null will return null if there was
+    // an exception.  If we cannot load the Shutdown class, just don't
+    // call Shutdown.shutdown() at all.  This will mean the shutdown hooks
+    // and finalizers (if runFinalizersOnExit is set) won't be run.
+    // Note that if a shutdown hook was registered or runFinalizersOnExit
+    // was called, the Shutdown class would have already been loaded
+    // (Runtime.addShutdownHook and runFinalizersOnExit will load it).
+    instanceKlassHandle shutdown_klass (THREAD, k);
+    JavaValue result(T_VOID);
+    JavaCalls::call_static(&result,
+                           shutdown_klass,
+                           vmSymbolHandles::shutdown_method_name(),
+                           vmSymbolHandles::void_method_signature(),
+                           THREAD);
+  }
+  CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+}
+
+// Threads::destroy_vm() is normally called from jni_DestroyJavaVM() when
+// the program falls off the end of main(). Another VM exit path is through
+// vm_exit() when the program calls System.exit() to return a value or when
+// there is a serious error in VM. The two shutdown paths are not exactly
+// the same, but they share Shutdown.shutdown() at Java level and before_exit()
+// and VM_Exit op at VM level.
+//
+// Shutdown sequence:
+//   + Wait until we are the last non-daemon thread to execute
+//     <-- every thing is still working at this moment -->
+//   + Call java.lang.Shutdown.shutdown(), which will invoke Java level
+//        shutdown hooks, run finalizers if finalization-on-exit
+//   + Call before_exit(), prepare for VM exit
+//      > run VM level shutdown hooks (they are registered through JVM_OnExit(),
+//        currently the only user of this mechanism is File.deleteOnExit())
+//      > stop flat profiler, StatSampler, watcher thread, CMS threads,
+//        post thread end and vm death events to JVMTI,
+//        stop signal thread
+//   + Call JavaThread::exit(), it will:
+//      > release JNI handle blocks, remove stack guard pages
+//      > remove this thread from Threads list
+//     <-- no more Java code from this thread after this point -->
+//   + Stop VM thread, it will bring the remaining VM to a safepoint and stop
+//     the compiler threads at safepoint
+//     <-- do not use anything that could get blocked by Safepoint -->
+//   + Disable tracing at JNI/JVM barriers
+//   + Set _vm_exited flag for threads that are still running native code
+//   + Delete this thread
+//   + Call exit_globals()
+//      > deletes tty
+//      > deletes PerfMemory resources
+//   + Return to caller
+
+bool Threads::destroy_vm() {
+  JavaThread* thread = JavaThread::current();
+
+  // Wait until we are the last non-daemon thread to execute
+  { MutexLocker nu(Threads_lock);
+    while (Threads::number_of_non_daemon_threads() > 1 )
+      // This wait should make safepoint checks, wait without a timeout,
+      // and wait as a suspend-equivalent condition.
+      //
+      // Note: If the FlatProfiler is running and this thread is waiting
+      // for another non-daemon thread to finish, then the FlatProfiler
+      // is waiting for the external suspend request on this thread to
+      // complete. wait_for_ext_suspend_completion() will eventually
+      // timeout, but that takes time. Making this wait a suspend-
+      // equivalent condition solves that timeout problem.
+      //
+      Threads_lock->wait(!Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag, 0,
+                         Mutex::_as_suspend_equivalent_flag);
+  }
+
+  // Hang forever on exit if we are reporting an error.
+  if (ShowMessageBoxOnError && is_error_reported()) {
+    os::infinite_sleep();
+  }
+
+  if (JDK_Version::is_jdk12x_version()) {
+    // We are the last thread running, so check if finalizers should be run.
+    // For 1.3 or later this is done in thread->invoke_shutdown_hooks()
+    HandleMark rm(thread);
+    Universe::run_finalizers_on_exit();
+  } else {
+    // run Java level shutdown hooks
+    thread->invoke_shutdown_hooks();
+  }
+
+  before_exit(thread);
+
+  thread->exit(true);
+
+  // Stop VM thread.
+  {
+    // 4945125 The vm thread comes to a safepoint during exit.
+    // GC vm_operations can get caught at the safepoint, and the
+    // heap is unparseable if they are caught. Grab the Heap_lock
+    // to prevent this. The GC vm_operations will not be able to
+    // queue until after the vm thread is dead.
+    MutexLocker ml(Heap_lock);
+
+    VMThread::wait_for_vm_thread_exit();
+    assert(SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint(), "VM thread should exit at Safepoint");
+    VMThread::destroy();
+  }
+
+  // clean up ideal graph printers
+#if defined(COMPILER2) && !defined(PRODUCT)
+  IdealGraphPrinter::clean_up();
+#endif
+
+  // Now, all Java threads are gone except daemon threads. Daemon threads
+  // running Java code or in VM are stopped by the Safepoint. However,
+  // daemon threads executing native code are still running.  But they
+  // will be stopped at native=>Java/VM barriers. Note that we can't
+  // simply kill or suspend them, as it is inherently deadlock-prone.
+
+#ifndef PRODUCT
+  // disable function tracing at JNI/JVM barriers
+  TraceHPI = false;
+  TraceJNICalls = false;
+  TraceJVMCalls = false;
+  TraceRuntimeCalls = false;
+#endif
+
+  VM_Exit::set_vm_exited();
+
+  notify_vm_shutdown();
+
+  delete thread;
+
+  // exit_globals() will delete tty
+  exit_globals();
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+
+jboolean Threads::is_supported_jni_version_including_1_1(jint version) {
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_1) return JNI_TRUE;
+  return is_supported_jni_version(version);
+}
+
+
+jboolean Threads::is_supported_jni_version(jint version) {
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_2) return JNI_TRUE;
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_4) return JNI_TRUE;
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_6) return JNI_TRUE;
+  return JNI_FALSE;
+}
+
+
+void Threads::add(JavaThread* p, bool force_daemon) {
+  // The threads lock must be owned at this point
+  assert_locked_or_safepoint(Threads_lock);
+  p->set_next(_thread_list);
+  _thread_list = p;
+  _number_of_threads++;
+  oop threadObj = p->threadObj();
+  bool daemon = true;
+  // Bootstrapping problem: threadObj can be null for initial
+  // JavaThread (or for threads attached via JNI)
+  if ((!force_daemon) && (threadObj == NULL || !java_lang_Thread::is_daemon(threadObj))) {
+    _number_of_non_daemon_threads++;
+    daemon = false;
+  }
+
+  ThreadService::add_thread(p, daemon);
+
+  // Possible GC point.
+  Events::log("Thread added: " INTPTR_FORMAT, p);
+}
+
+void Threads::remove(JavaThread* p) {
+  // Extra scope needed for Thread_lock, so we can check
+  // that we do not remove thread without safepoint code notice
+  { MutexLocker ml(Threads_lock);
+
+    assert(includes(p), "p must be present");
+
+    JavaThread* current = _thread_list;
+    JavaThread* prev    = NULL;
+
+    while (current != p) {
+      prev    = current;
+      current = current->next();
+    }
+
+    if (prev) {
+      prev->set_next(current->next());
+    } else {
+      _thread_list = p->next();
+    }
+    _number_of_threads--;
+    oop threadObj = p->threadObj();
+    bool daemon = true;
+    if (threadObj == NULL || !java_lang_Thread::is_daemon(threadObj)) {
+      _number_of_non_daemon_threads--;
+      daemon = false;
+
+      // Only one thread left, do a notify on the Threads_lock so a thread waiting
+      // on destroy_vm will wake up.
+      if (number_of_non_daemon_threads() == 1)
+        Threads_lock->notify_all();
+    }
+    ThreadService::remove_thread(p, daemon);
+
+    // Make sure that safepoint code disregard this thread. This is needed since
+    // the thread might mess around with locks after this point. This can cause it
+    // to do callbacks into the safepoint code. However, the safepoint code is not aware
+    // of this thread since it is removed from the queue.
+    p->set_terminated_value();
+  } // unlock Threads_lock
+
+  // Since Events::log uses a lock, we grab it outside the Threads_lock
+  Events::log("Thread exited: " INTPTR_FORMAT, p);
+}
+
+// Threads_lock must be held when this is called (or must be called during a safepoint)
+bool Threads::includes(JavaThread* p) {
+  assert(Threads_lock->is_locked(), "sanity check");
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(q) {
+    if (q == p ) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+// Operations on the Threads list for GC.  These are not explicitly locked,
+// but the garbage collector must provide a safe context for them to run.
+// In particular, these things should never be called when the Threads_lock
+// is held by some other thread. (Note: the Safepoint abstraction also
+// uses the Threads_lock to gurantee this property. It also makes sure that
+// all threads gets blocked when exiting or starting).
+
+void Threads::oops_do(OopClosure* f) {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->oops_do(f);
+  }
+  VMThread::vm_thread()->oops_do(f);
+}
+
+void Threads::possibly_parallel_oops_do(OopClosure* f) {
+  // Introduce a mechanism allowing parallel threads to claim threads as
+  // root groups.  Overhead should be small enough to use all the time,
+  // even in sequential code.
+  SharedHeap* sh = SharedHeap::heap();
+  bool is_par = (sh->n_par_threads() > 0);
+  int cp = SharedHeap::heap()->strong_roots_parity();
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    if (p->claim_oops_do(is_par, cp)) {
+      p->oops_do(f);
+    }
+  }
+  VMThread* vmt = VMThread::vm_thread();
+  if (vmt->claim_oops_do(is_par, cp))
+    vmt->oops_do(f);
+}
+
+#ifndef SERIALGC
+// Used by ParallelScavenge
+void Threads::create_thread_roots_tasks(GCTaskQueue* q) {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    q->enqueue(new ThreadRootsTask(p));
+  }
+  q->enqueue(new ThreadRootsTask(VMThread::vm_thread()));
+}
+
+// Used by Parallel Old
+void Threads::create_thread_roots_marking_tasks(GCTaskQueue* q) {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    q->enqueue(new ThreadRootsMarkingTask(p));
+  }
+  q->enqueue(new ThreadRootsMarkingTask(VMThread::vm_thread()));
+}
+#endif // SERIALGC
+
+void Threads::nmethods_do() {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->nmethods_do();
+  }
+  VMThread::vm_thread()->nmethods_do();
+}
+
+void Threads::gc_epilogue() {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->gc_epilogue();
+  }
+}
+
+void Threads::gc_prologue() {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->gc_prologue();
+  }
+}
+
+void Threads::deoptimized_wrt_marked_nmethods() {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->deoptimized_wrt_marked_nmethods();
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Get count Java threads that are waiting to enter the specified monitor.
+GrowableArray<JavaThread*>* Threads::get_pending_threads(int count,
+  address monitor, bool doLock) {
+  assert(doLock || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint(),
+    "must grab Threads_lock or be at safepoint");
+  GrowableArray<JavaThread*>* result = new GrowableArray<JavaThread*>(count);
+
+  int i = 0;
+  {
+    MutexLockerEx ml(doLock ? Threads_lock : NULL);
+    ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+      if (p->is_Compiler_thread()) continue;
+
+      address pending = (address)p->current_pending_monitor();
+      if (pending == monitor) {             // found a match
+        if (i < count) result->append(p);   // save the first count matches
+        i++;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+
+JavaThread *Threads::owning_thread_from_monitor_owner(address owner, bool doLock) {
+  assert(doLock ||
+         Threads_lock->owned_by_self() ||
+         SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint(),
+         "must grab Threads_lock or be at safepoint");
+
+  // NULL owner means not locked so we can skip the search
+  if (owner == NULL) return NULL;
+
+  {
+    MutexLockerEx ml(doLock ? Threads_lock : NULL);
+    ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+      // first, see if owner is the address of a Java thread
+      if (owner == (address)p) return p;
+    }
+  }
+  assert(UseHeavyMonitors == false, "Did not find owning Java thread with UseHeavyMonitors enabled");
+  if (UseHeavyMonitors) return NULL;
+
+  //
+  // If we didn't find a matching Java thread and we didn't force use of
+  // heavyweight monitors, then the owner is the stack address of the
+  // Lock Word in the owning Java thread's stack.
+  //
+  // We can't use Thread::is_lock_owned() or Thread::lock_is_in_stack() because
+  // those routines rely on the "current" stack pointer. That would be our
+  // stack pointer which is not relevant to the question. Instead we use the
+  // highest lock ever entered by the thread and find the thread that is
+  // higher than and closest to our target stack address.
+  //
+  address    least_diff = 0;
+  bool       least_diff_initialized = false;
+  JavaThread* the_owner = NULL;
+  {
+    MutexLockerEx ml(doLock ? Threads_lock : NULL);
+    ALL_JAVA_THREADS(q) {
+      address addr = q->highest_lock();
+      if (addr == NULL || addr < owner) continue;  // thread has entered no monitors or is too low
+      address diff = (address)(addr - owner);
+      if (!least_diff_initialized || diff < least_diff) {
+        least_diff_initialized = true;
+        least_diff = diff;
+        the_owner = q;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  assert(the_owner != NULL, "Did not find owning Java thread for lock word address");
+  return the_owner;
+}
+
+// Threads::print_on() is called at safepoint by VM_PrintThreads operation.
+void Threads::print_on(outputStream* st, bool print_stacks, bool internal_format, bool print_concurrent_locks) {
+  char buf[32];
+  st->print_cr(os::local_time_string(buf, sizeof(buf)));
+
+  st->print_cr("Full thread dump %s (%s %s):",
+                Abstract_VM_Version::vm_name(),
+                Abstract_VM_Version::vm_release(),
+                Abstract_VM_Version::vm_info_string()
+               );
+  st->cr();
+
+#ifndef SERIALGC
+  // Dump concurrent locks
+  ConcurrentLocksDump concurrent_locks;
+  if (print_concurrent_locks) {
+    concurrent_locks.dump_at_safepoint();
+  }
+#endif // SERIALGC
+
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    ResourceMark rm;
+    p->print_on(st);
+    if (print_stacks) {
+      if (internal_format) {
+        p->trace_stack();
+      } else {
+        p->print_stack_on(st);
+      }
+    }
+    st->cr();
+#ifndef SERIALGC
+    if (print_concurrent_locks) {
+      concurrent_locks.print_locks_on(p, st);
+    }
+#endif // SERIALGC
+  }
+
+  VMThread::vm_thread()->print_on(st);
+  st->cr();
+  Universe::heap()->print_gc_threads_on(st);
+  WatcherThread* wt = WatcherThread::watcher_thread();
+  if (wt != NULL) wt->print_on(st);
+  st->cr();
+  CompileBroker::print_compiler_threads_on(st);
+  st->flush();
+}
+
+// Threads::print_on_error() is called by fatal error handler. It's possible
+// that VM is not at safepoint and/or current thread is inside signal handler.
+// Don't print stack trace, as the stack may not be walkable. Don't allocate
+// memory (even in resource area), it might deadlock the error handler.
+void Threads::print_on_error(outputStream* st, Thread* current, char* buf, int buflen) {
+  bool found_current = false;
+  st->print_cr("Java Threads: ( => current thread )");
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(thread) {
+    bool is_current = (current == thread);
+    found_current = found_current || is_current;
+
+    st->print("%s", is_current ? "=>" : "  ");
+
+    st->print(PTR_FORMAT, thread);
+    st->print(" ");
+    thread->print_on_error(st, buf, buflen);
+    st->cr();
+  }
+  st->cr();
+
+  st->print_cr("Other Threads:");
+  if (VMThread::vm_thread()) {
+    bool is_current = (current == VMThread::vm_thread());
+    found_current = found_current || is_current;
+    st->print("%s", current == VMThread::vm_thread() ? "=>" : "  ");
+
+    st->print(PTR_FORMAT, VMThread::vm_thread());
+    st->print(" ");
+    VMThread::vm_thread()->print_on_error(st, buf, buflen);
+    st->cr();
+  }
+  WatcherThread* wt = WatcherThread::watcher_thread();
+  if (wt != NULL) {
+    bool is_current = (current == wt);
+    found_current = found_current || is_current;
+    st->print("%s", is_current ? "=>" : "  ");
+
+    st->print(PTR_FORMAT, wt);
+    st->print(" ");
+    wt->print_on_error(st, buf, buflen);
+    st->cr();
+  }
+  if (!found_current) {
+    st->cr();
+    st->print("=>" PTR_FORMAT " (exited) ", current);
+    current->print_on_error(st, buf, buflen);
+    st->cr();
+  }
+}
+
+
+// Lifecycle management for TSM ParkEvents.
+// ParkEvents are type-stable (TSM).
+// In our particular implementation they happen to be immortal.
+//
+// We manage concurrency on the FreeList with a CAS-based
+// detach-modify-reattach idiom that avoids the ABA problems
+// that would otherwise be present in a simple CAS-based
+// push-pop implementation.   (push-one and pop-all)
+//
+// Caveat: Allocate() and Release() may be called from threads
+// other than the thread associated with the Event!
+// If we need to call Allocate() when running as the thread in
+// question then look for the PD calls to initialize native TLS.
+// Native TLS (Win32/Linux/Solaris) can only be initialized or
+// accessed by the associated thread.
+// See also pd_initialize().
+//
+// Note that we could defer associating a ParkEvent with a thread
+// until the 1st time the thread calls park().  unpark() calls to
+// an unprovisioned thread would be ignored.  The first park() call
+// for a thread would allocate and associate a ParkEvent and return
+// immediately.
+
+volatile int ParkEvent::ListLock = 0 ;
+ParkEvent * volatile ParkEvent::FreeList = NULL ;
+
+ParkEvent * ParkEvent::Allocate (Thread * t) {
+  // In rare cases -- JVM_RawMonitor* operations -- we can find t == null.
+  ParkEvent * ev ;
+
+  // Start by trying to recycle an existing but unassociated
+  // ParkEvent from the global free list.
+  for (;;) {
+    ev = FreeList ;
+    if (ev == NULL) break ;
+    // 1: Detach - sequester or privatize the list
+    // Tantamount to ev = Swap (&FreeList, NULL)
+    if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (NULL, &FreeList, ev) != ev) {
+       continue ;
+    }
+
+    // We've detached the list.  The list in-hand is now
+    // local to this thread.   This thread can operate on the
+    // list without risk of interference from other threads.
+    // 2: Extract -- pop the 1st element from the list.
+    ParkEvent * List = ev->FreeNext ;
+    if (List == NULL) break ;
+    for (;;) {
+        // 3: Try to reattach the residual list
+        guarantee (List != NULL, "invariant") ;
+        ParkEvent * Arv =  (ParkEvent *) Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (List, &FreeList, NULL) ;
+        if (Arv == NULL) break ;
+
+        // New nodes arrived.  Try to detach the recent arrivals.
+        if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (NULL, &FreeList, Arv) != Arv) {
+            continue ;
+        }
+        guarantee (Arv != NULL, "invariant") ;
+        // 4: Merge Arv into List
+        ParkEvent * Tail = List ;
+        while (Tail->FreeNext != NULL) Tail = Tail->FreeNext ;
+        Tail->FreeNext = Arv ;
+    }
+    break ;
+  }
+
+  if (ev != NULL) {
+    guarantee (ev->AssociatedWith == NULL, "invariant") ;
+  } else {
+    // Do this the hard way -- materialize a new ParkEvent.
+    // In rare cases an allocating thread might detach a long list --
+    // installing null into FreeList -- and then stall or be obstructed.
+    // A 2nd thread calling Allocate() would see FreeList == null.
+    // The list held privately by the 1st thread is unavailable to the 2nd thread.
+    // In that case the 2nd thread would have to materialize a new ParkEvent,
+    // even though free ParkEvents existed in the system.  In this case we end up
+    // with more ParkEvents in circulation than we need, but the race is
+    // rare and the outcome is benign.  Ideally, the # of extant ParkEvents
+    // is equal to the maximum # of threads that existed at any one time.
+    // Because of the race mentioned above, segments of the freelist
+    // can be transiently inaccessible.  At worst we may end up with the
+    // # of ParkEvents in circulation slightly above the ideal.
+    // Note that if we didn't have the TSM/immortal constraint, then
+    // when reattaching, above, we could trim the list.
+    ev = new ParkEvent () ;
+    guarantee ((intptr_t(ev) & 0xFF) == 0, "invariant") ;
+  }
+  ev->reset() ;                     // courtesy to caller
+  ev->AssociatedWith = t ;          // Associate ev with t
+  ev->FreeNext       = NULL ;
+  return ev ;
+}
+
+void ParkEvent::Release (ParkEvent * ev) {
+  if (ev == NULL) return ;
+  guarantee (ev->FreeNext == NULL      , "invariant") ;
+  ev->AssociatedWith = NULL ;
+  for (;;) {
+    // Push ev onto FreeList
+    // The mechanism is "half" lock-free.
+    ParkEvent * List = FreeList ;
+    ev->FreeNext = List ;
+    if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (ev, &FreeList, List) == List) break ;
+  }
+}
+
+// Override operator new and delete so we can ensure that the
+// least significant byte of ParkEvent addresses is 0.
+// Beware that excessive address alignment is undesirable
+// as it can result in D$ index usage imbalance as
+// well as bank access imbalance on Niagara-like platforms,
+// although Niagara's hash function should help.
+
+void * ParkEvent::operator new (size_t sz) {
+  return (void *) ((intptr_t (CHeapObj::operator new (sz + 256)) + 256) & -256) ;
+}
+
+void ParkEvent::operator delete (void * a) {
+  // ParkEvents are type-stable and immortal ...
+  ShouldNotReachHere();
+}
+
+
+// 6399321 As a temporary measure we copied & modified the ParkEvent::
+// allocate() and release() code for use by Parkers.  The Parker:: forms
+// will eventually be removed as we consolide and shift over to ParkEvents
+// for both builtin synchronization and JSR166 operations.
+
+volatile int Parker::ListLock = 0 ;
+Parker * volatile Parker::FreeList = NULL ;
+
+Parker * Parker::Allocate (JavaThread * t) {
+  guarantee (t != NULL, "invariant") ;
+  Parker * p ;
+
+  // Start by trying to recycle an existing but unassociated
+  // Parker from the global free list.
+  for (;;) {
+    p = FreeList ;
+    if (p  == NULL) break ;
+    // 1: Detach
+    // Tantamount to p = Swap (&FreeList, NULL)
+    if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (NULL, &FreeList, p) != p) {
+       continue ;
+    }
+
+    // We've detached the list.  The list in-hand is now
+    // local to this thread.   This thread can operate on the
+    // list without risk of interference from other threads.
+    // 2: Extract -- pop the 1st element from the list.
+    Parker * List = p->FreeNext ;
+    if (List == NULL) break ;
+    for (;;) {
+        // 3: Try to reattach the residual list
+        guarantee (List != NULL, "invariant") ;
+        Parker * Arv =  (Parker *) Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (List, &FreeList, NULL) ;
+        if (Arv == NULL) break ;
+
+        // New nodes arrived.  Try to detach the recent arrivals.
+        if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (NULL, &FreeList, Arv) != Arv) {
+            continue ;
+        }
+        guarantee (Arv != NULL, "invariant") ;
+        // 4: Merge Arv into List
+        Parker * Tail = List ;
+        while (Tail->FreeNext != NULL) Tail = Tail->FreeNext ;
+        Tail->FreeNext = Arv ;
+    }
+    break ;
+  }
+
+  if (p != NULL) {
+    guarantee (p->AssociatedWith == NULL, "invariant") ;
+  } else {
+    // Do this the hard way -- materialize a new Parker..
+    // In rare cases an allocating thread might detach
+    // a long list -- installing null into FreeList --and
+    // then stall.  Another thread calling Allocate() would see
+    // FreeList == null and then invoke the ctor.  In this case we
+    // end up with more Parkers in circulation than we need, but
+    // the race is rare and the outcome is benign.
+    // Ideally, the # of extant Parkers is equal to the
+    // maximum # of threads that existed at any one time.
+    // Because of the race mentioned above, segments of the
+    // freelist can be transiently inaccessible.  At worst
+    // we may end up with the # of Parkers in circulation
+    // slightly above the ideal.
+    p = new Parker() ;
+  }
+  p->AssociatedWith = t ;          // Associate p with t
+  p->FreeNext       = NULL ;
+  return p ;
+}
+
+
+void Parker::Release (Parker * p) {
+  if (p == NULL) return ;
+  guarantee (p->AssociatedWith != NULL, "invariant") ;
+  guarantee (p->FreeNext == NULL      , "invariant") ;
+  p->AssociatedWith = NULL ;
+  for (;;) {
+    // Push p onto FreeList
+    Parker * List = FreeList ;
+    p->FreeNext = List ;
+    if (Atomic::cmpxchg_ptr (p, &FreeList, List) == List) break ;
+  }
+}
+
+void Threads::verify() {
+  ALL_JAVA_THREADS(p) {
+    p->verify();
+  }
+  VMThread* thread = VMThread::vm_thread();
+  if (thread != NULL) thread->verify();
+}