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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard S. Hall (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (FELIX-2597) Deadlock during delivery of resolved
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Deadlock during delivery of resolved event
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                 Key: FELIX-2597
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2597
             Project: Felix
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Framework
    Affects Versions: framework-3.0.2
            Reporter: Richard S. Hall
            Assignee: Richard S. Hall
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: framework-3.2.0


When the framework resolves a bundle, it fires the RESOLVED event to synchronous bundle listeners while holding the global lock. This caused a deadlock in a specific scenario where two threads T1 and T2 were racing to resolve bundled B1 and B2, respectively. T1 was resolving a dynamic import for B2 which started from a loadClassInternal() call from the JVM which locks B2's class loader. T1 lost the race for the global lock and had to wait for T2 to do its resolve of B2. T2 ended up firing a RESOLVED event to B1. In B1's callback method, a loadClassInternal() was triggered by T2 when it accessed some static, which caused it to deadlock when the JRE tried to lock the B1's class loader on T2, which was already held by T1.

This issue is actually related to the JVM being too aggressively in its locking of class loaders:

    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4670071

Regardless, we might be able to loosen this up a little bit by not holding the global lock at all. This might slightly violate the definition of synchronous bundle listener, since the state could change, but at least it will still be delivered synchronously on the instigating thread.

More information here:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=13329


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