--- jsr166/src/test/tck/JSR166TestCase.java	2017/03/14 00:54:27	1.221
+++ jsr166/src/test/tck/JSR166TestCase.java	2017/05/13 22:36:45	1.225
@@ -658,12 +658,17 @@ public class JSR166TestCase extends Test
         LONG_DELAY_MS   = SHORT_DELAY_MS * 200;
     }
 
+    private static final long TIMEOUT_DELAY_MS
+        = (long) (12.0 * Math.cbrt(delayFactor));
+
     /**
-     * Returns a timeout in milliseconds to be used in tests that
-     * verify that operations block or time out.
+     * Returns a timeout in milliseconds to be used in tests that verify
+     * that operations block or time out.  We want this to be longer
+     * than the OS scheduling quantum, but not too long, so don't scale
+     * linearly with delayFactor; we use "crazy" cube root instead.
      */
-    long timeoutMillis() {
-        return SHORT_DELAY_MS / 4;
+    static long timeoutMillis() {
+        return TIMEOUT_DELAY_MS;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1058,6 +1063,26 @@ public class JSR166TestCase extends Test
     }
 
     /**
+     * Checks that thread eventually enters the expected blocked thread state.
+     */
+    void assertThreadBlocks(Thread thread, Thread.State expected) {
+        // always sleep at least 1 ms, avoiding transitional states
+        // with high probability
+        for (long retries = LONG_DELAY_MS * 3 / 4; retries-->0; ) {
+            try { delay(1); }
+            catch (InterruptedException fail) {
+                fail("Unexpected InterruptedException");
+            }
+            Thread.State s = thread.getState();
+            if (s == expected)
+                return;
+            else if (s == Thread.State.TERMINATED)
+                fail("Unexpected thread termination");
+        }
+        fail("timed out waiting for thread to enter thread state " + expected);
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Checks that thread does not terminate within the default
      * millisecond delay of {@code timeoutMillis()}.
      */
@@ -1138,6 +1163,12 @@ public class JSR166TestCase extends Test
     }
 
     /**
+     * The maximum number of consecutive spurious wakeups we should
+     * tolerate (from APIs like LockSupport.park) before failing a test.
+     */
+    static final int MAX_SPURIOUS_WAKEUPS = 10;
+
+    /**
      * The number of elements to place in collections, arrays, etc.
      */
     public static final int SIZE = 20;