--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp Tue Nov 24 11:49:42 2009 -0800
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp Fri Nov 27 07:56:58 2009 -0800
@@ -3231,6 +3231,21 @@
jint result = JNI_ERR;
DT_RETURN_MARK(CreateJavaVM, jint, (const jint&)result);
+ // We're about to use Atomic::xchg for synchronization. Some Zero
+ // platforms use the GCC builtin __sync_lock_test_and_set for this,
+ // but __sync_lock_test_and_set is not guaranteed to do what we want
+ // on all architectures. So we check it works before relying on it.
+#if defined(ZERO) && defined(ASSERT)
+ {
+ jint a = 0xcafebabe;
+ jint b = Atomic::xchg(0xdeadbeef, &a);
+ void *c = &a;
+ void *d = Atomic::xchg_ptr(&b, &c);
+ assert(a == 0xdeadbeef && b == (jint) 0xcafebabe, "Atomic::xchg() works");
+ assert(c == &b && d == &a, "Atomic::xchg_ptr() works");
+ }
+#endif // ZERO && ASSERT
+
// At the moment it's only possible to have one Java VM,
// since some of the runtime state is in global variables.