RELEASE NOTES: JDK 10.0.2

filterArguments Runs Multiple Filters in the Wrong Order

The specification of the method java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.filterArguments was clarified to state more clearly that filter arguments are invoked in left to right order. The implementation of this method was also fixed to ensure that it conformed to the specification. Prior to the fix, the implementation incorrectly invoked filters in right to left order. For the majority of usages, it is expected that the change in behavior will not be observable. Only in a minority of cases, where two or more filters have side-effects that affect their results, will the change in behavior be observable.

JVM Crash during G1 GC

A klass that has been considered unreachable by the concurrent marking of G1, can be looked up in the ClassLoaderData/SystemDictionary, and its _java_mirror or _class_loader fields can be stored in a root or any other reachable object making it alive again. Whenever a klass is resurrected in this manner, the SATB part of G1 needs to be notified about this, otherwise, the concurrent marking remark phase will erroneously unload that klass.

In this particular crash, while G1 was doing concurrent marking and had prepared its list of unreachable classes, JVMTI on a Java thread could traverse classes in the CLD and store thread-local JNIHandles for the java_mirror of the loaded classes. G1 did not have knowledge of these thread-local JNIHandles, and in the remark phase, it unloaded classes per its prior knowledge of unreachable classes. When these JNIHandles were later scanned, it lead to a crash.

This fix for JDK-8187577 informs G1's SATB that a klass has been resurrected and should not be unloaded.