[jira] Created: (UIMA-367) Deadlock can occur in MultiprocessingAnalysisEngine_impl.setResultSpecification

Deadlock can occur in MultiprocessingAnalysisEngine_impl.setResultSpecification
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                 Key: UIMA-367
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-367
             Project: UIMA
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core Java Framework
    Affects Versions: 2.1
            Reporter: Adam Lally
         Assigned To: Adam Lally
             Fix For: 2.2

User reports unit test frequently hangs at the following location:
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Thread [Thread-1] (Suspended)
   Object.wait(long) line: not available [native method]
   ResourcePool.getResource(long) line: 166
   AnalysisEnginePool.setResultSpecification(ResultSpecification) line:
155

MultiprocessingAnalysisEngine_impl.setResultSpecification(ResultSpecification)
line: 122

MultiprocessingAnalysisEngine_impl(AnalysisEngineImplBase).process(CAS,
ResultSpecification) line: 200
   MultiprocessingAnalysisEngine_implTest$ProcessThread.run() line: 363
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I took a look at the code for
AnalysisEnginePool.setResultSpecification.  It tries to set the result
specification of all AEs in the pool.  To do this it attempts to check
out all instances from the pool, set their result spec, and then
releases them all.  If this method is executed simultaneously from two
threads,  it can easily result in deadlock (each thread has some
portion of the instances checked out and is trying to check out the
remainder of them, and both will wait forever).

And this method is called from the process(CAS, ResultSpecification)
method, called in this test case from multiple threads.

This design is broken and must be fixed.

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