Bug 134601

Summary: Rationalize the interaction between GC and the SymbolTable lock
Product: WebKit Reporter: Filip Pizlo <fpizlo>
Component: JavaScriptCoreAssignee: Filip Pizlo <fpizlo>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: barraclough, ggaren, mark.lam, mhahnenberg, msaboff, oliver, sam
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Filip Pizlo 2014-07-03 10:30:06 PDT 
Currently we have everything we need to ensure that we don't do GC things while holding the SymbolTable lock, and yet we still use a GCSafeConcurrentJITLocker because of the few things that slipped through, like exception throwing.

Also, we notifyWrite() on watchpoint sets while holding the SymbolTable lock, which seems super dangerous.

We should fix this.
Comment 1 Filip Pizlo 2015-03-30 11:40:11 PDT 
The notifyWrite part will be taken care of by https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143232.