[jira] [Commented] (FELIX-3067) Prevent Deadlock Situation in Felix.acquireGlobalLock

["Ancoron Luciferis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ancoron Luciferis commented on FELIX-3067:
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We're also hit by this this issue since the beginning as we have a lot of bundles and using those inside GlassFish 3.1.x together with Apache Aries Blueprints and FileInstall.

So, we also would like to see Felix.acquireGlobalLock deadlock problem being fixed.

However, I also foresee framework config parameters here for the number of "retries" and the timeout per try.
                
> Prevent Deadlock Situation in Felix.acquireGlobalLock
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-3067
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3067
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Framework
>    Affects Versions: framework-3.0.7, framework-3.0.8, framework-3.0.9, framework-3.2.0, framework-3.2.1, fileinstall-3.1.10
>            Reporter: Felix Meschberger
>         Attachments: FELIX-3067.patch
>
>
> Every now and then we encounter deadlock situations which involve the Felix.acquireGlobalLock method. In our use case we have the following aspects which contribute to this:
> (a) The Apache Felix Declarative Services implementation stops components (and thus causes service unregistration) while the bundle lock is being held because this happens in a SynchronousBundleListener while handling the STOPPING bundle event. We have to do this to ensure the bundle is not really stopped yet to properly stop the bundle's components.
> (b) Implementing a special class loader which involves dynamically resolving packages which in turn uses the global lock
> (c) Eclipse Gemini Blueprint implementation which operates asynchronously
> (d) synchronization in application classes
> Often times, I would assume that we can self-heal such complex deadlck situations, if we let acquireGlobalLock time out. Looking at the calles of acquireGlobalLock there seems to already be provision to handle this case since acquireGlobalLock returns true only if the global lock has actually been acquired.
> This issue is kind of a companion to FELIX-3000 where deadlocks involve sending service registration events while holding the bundle lock.

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