org.jikesrvm.scheduler
Class FinalizerThread

java.lang.Object
  org.jikesrvm.scheduler.SystemThread
      org.jikesrvm.scheduler.FinalizerThread

public class FinalizerThread
extends SystemThread

Finalizer thread.

This thread is created by RVMThread.boot() at runtime startup. Its "run" method does the following:

• 1. yield to the gcwaitqueue, until scheduled by GC.
• 2. For all objects on finalize queue, run the finalize() method
• 3. Go to 1

This thread comes out of wait state via notify from the garbage collector

verbose

private static final int verbose

See Also:

Constant Field Values

none

private final Object[] none

shouldRun

private static boolean shouldRun

schedLock

private static Monitor schedLock

FinalizerThread

public FinalizerThread()

boot

public static void boot()

schedule

public static void schedule()

run

public void run()

Run the finalizer thread (one per RVM)

Specified by:

run in class SystemThread