Is it possible for ConcurrentHashMap to "deadlock"?

Question

We have come across a strange issue with ConcurrentHashMap, where two threads appears to be calling put(), and then waiting forever inside the method Unsafe.park(). From the outside, it looks like a deadlock inside ConcurrentHashMap.

We have only seen this happen once so far.

Can anyone think of anything that could cause these symptoms?

EDIT: The thread dump for the relevant threads is here:

"[redacted] Thread 2" prio=10 tid=0x000000005bbbc800 nid=0x921 waiting on condition [0x0000000040e93000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
    at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
    - parking to wait for  <0x00002aaaf1207b40> (a java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:158)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:747)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireQueued(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:778)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquire(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1114)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync.lock(ReentrantLock.java:186)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock.lock(ReentrantLock.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$Segment.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:417)
    at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:883)
    at [redacted]


"[redacted] Thread 0" prio=10 tid=0x000000005bf38000 nid=0x91f waiting on condition [0x000000004151d000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
    at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
    - parking to wait for  <0x00002aaaf1207b40> (a java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:158)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:747)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireQueued(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:778)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquire(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1114)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock$NonfairSync.lock(ReentrantLock.java:186)
    at java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock.lock(ReentrantLock.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$Segment.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:417)
    at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.put(ConcurrentHashMap.java:883)
    at [redacted]

Answer 1

Maybe not the answer you want, but this may be a JVM bug. See

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6865591

Answer 2

Package Unsafe is native, an implementation depends on a platform.

Abrupt termination of third thread (on platform level, excepion is not a problem) which acquired a lock on map can cause such situation - state of lock is broken, two other threads are disabled and waiting for someone to call Unsafe.unpark() (And that will never happen).