Java Thread 实现方式
关于Thread有一个比较有趣的面试题。当你new 一个Thread的时候，直接调用它的run()方法，run()会执行在哪个线程？ 答案是调用run()的线程，因为只有在调用start()之后，Java才会创建一个新的线程，然后新的线程再调用执行Java代码里面的run()。看如下代码，一个简单的实现：
Thread thread = new Thread(){
public void run() {
}
};
thread.start();接下来就一步步的查看一下thread.start() 方法的执行过程：
Step 1 :
public synchronized void start() {
/**
* This method is not invoked for the main method thread or "system"
* group threads created/set up by the VM. Any new functionality added
* to this method in the future may have to also be added to the VM.
*
* A zero status value corresponds to state "NEW".
*/
if (threadStatus != 0)
throw new IllegalThreadStateException();
/* Notify the group that this thread is about to be started
* so that it can be added to the group's list of threads
* and the group's unstarted count can be decremented. */
group.add(this);
boolean started = false;
try {
start0();
started = true;
} finally {
try {
if (!started) {
group.threadStartFailed(this);
}
} catch (Throwable ignore) {
/* do nothing. If start0 threw a Throwable then
it will be passed up the call stack */
}
}
}
这段代码在：java.lang.Thread 里面。start()方法最后会调用 native start0()。 这个方法是一个本地方法，会有Java系统内部实现。关于如何查看本地方法可以查看这批文章：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17086606/loading-of-the-native-code-library-for-start0-native-method-in-thread-class 。
Step2 :
static JNINativeMethod methods[] = {
{"start0", "()V", (void *)&JVM_StartThread},
{"stop0", "(" OBJ ")V", (void *)&JVM_StopThread},
{"isAlive", "()Z", (void *)&JVM_IsThreadAlive},
{"suspend0", "()V", (void *)&JVM_SuspendThread},
{"resume0", "()V", (void *)&JVM_ResumeThread},
{"setPriority0", "(I)V", (void *)&JVM_SetThreadPriority},
{"yield", "()V", (void *)&JVM_Yield},
{"sleep", "(J)V", (void *)&JVM_Sleep},
{"currentThread", "()" THD, (void *)&JVM_CurrentThread},
{"countStackFrames", "()I", (void *)&JVM_CountStackFrames},
{"interrupt0", "()V", (void *)&JVM_Interrupt},
{"isInterrupted", "(Z)Z", (void *)&JVM_IsInterrupted},
{"holdsLock", "(" OBJ ")Z", (void *)&JVM_HoldsLock},
{"getThreads", "()[" THD, (void *)&JVM_GetAllThreads},
{"dumpThreads", "([" THD ")[[" STE, (void *)&JVM_DumpThreads},
};这段代码在JDK 源码的: src/share/native/java/lang/Thread.c 里面。可以看到当执行native start0()的时候会调用执行Java 虚拟机内实现的JVM_StartThread 函数。这里选择hotspot虚拟机对应的开源代码。
Step3:
JVM_ENTRY(void, JVM_StartThread(JNIEnv* env, jobject jthread))
JVMWrapper("JVM_StartThread");
JavaThread *native_thread = NULL;
// We cannot hold the Threads_lock when we throw an exception,
// due to rank ordering issues. Example: we might need to grab the
// Heap_lock while we construct the exception.
bool throw_illegal_thread_state = false;
// We must release the Threads_lock before we can post a jvmti event
// in Thread::start.
{
// Ensure that the C++ Thread and OSThread structures aren't freed before
// we operate.
MutexLocker mu(Threads_lock);
// Since JDK 5 the java.lang.Thread threadStatus is used to prevent
// re-starting an already started thread, so we should usually find
// that the JavaThread is null. However for a JNI attached thread
// there is a small window between the Thread object being created
// (with its JavaThread set) and the update to its threadStatus, so we
// have to check for this
if (java_lang_Thread::thread(JNIHandles::resolve_non_null(jthread)) != NULL) {
throw_illegal_thread_state = true;
} else {
// We could also check the stillborn flag to see if this thread was already stopped, but
// for historical reasons we let the thread detect that itself when it starts running
jlong size =
java_lang_Thread::stackSize(JNIHandles::resolve_non_null(jthread));
// Allocate the C++ Thread structure and create the native thread. The
// stack size retrieved from java is signed, but the constructor takes
// size_t (an unsigned type), so avoid passing negative values which would
// result in really large stacks.
size_t sz = size > 0 ? (size_t) size : 0;
native_thread = new JavaThread(&thread_entry, sz);
// At this point it may be possible that no osthread was created for the
// JavaThread due to lack of memory. Check for this situation and throw
// an exception if necessary. Eventually we may want to change this so
// that we only grab the lock if the thread was created successfully -
// then we can also do this check and throw the exception in the
// JavaThread constructor.
if (native_thread->osthread() != NULL) {
// Note: the current thread is not being used within "prepare".
native_thread->prepare(jthread);
}
}
}
if (throw_illegal_thread_state) {
THROW(vmSymbols::java_lang_IllegalThreadStateException());
}
assert(native_thread != NULL, "Starting null thread?");
if (native_thread->osthread() == NULL) {
// No one should hold a reference to the 'native_thread'.
delete native_thread;
if (JvmtiExport::should_post_resource_exhausted()) {
JvmtiExport::post_resource_exhausted(
JVMTI_RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED_OOM_ERROR | JVMTI_RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED_THREADS,
"unable to create new native thread");
}
THROW_MSG(vmSymbols::java_lang_OutOfMemoryError(),
"unable to create new native thread");
}
Thread::start(native_thread);
JVM_END这段代码在: hotspot: src/share/vm/prims/jvm.cpp 。 这段代码主要执行了创建线程、开启线程操作。 分别看一下这两个操作的具体实现：
创建JavaThread:
JavaThread::JavaThread(ThreadFunction entry_point, size_t stack_sz) :
Thread()
#ifndef SERIALGC
, _satb_mark_queue(&_satb_mark_queue_set),
_dirty_card_queue(&_dirty_card_queue_set)
#endif // !SERIALGC
{
if (TraceThreadEvents) {
tty->print_cr("creating thread %p", this);
}
initialize();
_is_attaching = false;
set_entry_point(entry_point);
// Create the native thread itself.
// %note runtime_23
os::ThreadType thr_type = os::java_thread;
thr_type = entry_point == &compiler_thread_entry ? os::compiler_thread :
os::java_thread;
os::create_thread(this, thr_type, stack_sz);
}接下来是Thread::start(native_thread).
void Thread::start(Thread* thread) {
trace("start", thread);
// Start is different from resume in that its safety is guaranteed by context or
// being called from a Java method synchronized on the Thread object.
if (!DisableStartThread) {
if (thread->is_Java_thread()) {
// Initialize the thread state to RUNNABLE before starting this thread.
// Can not set it after the thread started because we do not know the
// exact thread state at that time. It could be in MONITOR_WAIT or
// in SLEEPING or some other state.
java_lang_Thread::set_thread_status(((JavaThread*)thread)->threadObj(),
java_lang_Thread::RUNNABLE);
}
os::start_thread(thread);
}
}os::start_thread 最终会调用JavaThread的run()
// The first routine called by a new Java thread
void JavaThread::run() {
// initialize thread-local alloc buffer related fields
this->initialize_tlab();
// used to test validitity of stack trace backs
this->record_base_of_stack_pointer();
// Record real stack base and size.
this->record_stack_base_and_size();
// Initialize thread local storage; set before calling MutexLocker
this->initialize_thread_local_storage();
this->create_stack_guard_pages();
this->cache_global_variables();
// Thread is now sufficient initialized to be handled by the safepoint code as being
// in the VM. Change thread state from _thread_new to _thread_in_vm
ThreadStateTransition::transition_and_fence(this, _thread_new, _thread_in_vm);
assert(JavaThread::current() == this, "sanity check");
assert(!Thread::current()->owns_locks(), "sanity check");
DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(start, this);
// This operation might block. We call that after all safepoint checks for a new thread has
// been completed.
this->set_active_handles(JNIHandleBlock::allocate_block());
if (JvmtiExport::should_post_thread_life()) {
JvmtiExport::post_thread_start(this);
}
// We call another function to do the rest so we are sure that the stack addresses used
// from there will be lower than the stack base just computed
thread_main_inner();
// Note, thread is no longer valid at this point!
}
void JavaThread::thread_main_inner() {
assert(JavaThread::current() == this, "sanity check");
assert(this->threadObj() != NULL, "just checking");
// Execute thread entry point unless this thread has a pending exception
// or has been stopped before starting.
// Note: Due to JVM_StopThread we can have pending exceptions already!
if (!this->has_pending_exception() &&
!java_lang_Thread::is_stillborn(this->threadObj())) {
HandleMark hm(this);
this->entry_point()(this, this);
}
DTRACE_THREAD_PROBE(stop, this);
this->exit(false);
delete this;
}在创建线程的时候我们有说过entry_point 是一个函数名，线程启动的时候会调用这个函数。
static void thread_entry(JavaThread* thread, TRAPS) {
HandleMark hm(THREAD);
Handle obj(THREAD, thread->threadObj());
JavaValue result(T_VOID);
JavaCalls::call_virtual(&result,
obj,
KlassHandle(THREAD, SystemDictionary::Thread_klass()),
vmSymbols::run_method_name(),
vmSymbols::void_method_signature(),
THREAD);
}到此Java 线程的创建和启动过程就已经结束了。
结论： Java里面创建线程之后只有调用了start()方法才能真正的创建一个线程 ; Java 是一门夸平台的语言，创建线程时是调用当前平台创建线程的方法创建一个线程； 本地创建完一个线程之后会调用Java Thread.class 内的run方法。
因为本人水平有限，所以线程启动时会有一些涉及不到的地方。 比如ThreadStatus 的变化。线程内存分配等方面。