[jdk9] Forward-porting patches from 8u to 9

[Edward Nevill]

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 17:59 +0100, Alex Kashchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I applied 8 patches from jdk8u to jdk9:
> 
>   - webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~akasko/aarch32/jdk9/8155618_plus_7_other/webrev.00/
> 
> Webrev is committed, all patches are the same as in 8u (with some 
> whitespace changes), all commit messages kept intact. They are tested 
> bootstrapping release version of jdk9 with a fastdebug one on multiple 
> devboards.

Looks good. I am just doing some tests on it, and if all is OK will push
it presently.

> The following one is not included:
> 
>   - 8156067: aarch32: backport better byte behaviour
>   - 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch32-port-dev/2016-May/000265.html
>   - http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch32-port/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/e06cbcf76984
> 
> PS: If there won't be objections I'll go on with updating jdk9 from 
> upstream and applying "better byte behaviour" patch.
> 

No, no objections,

Thanks,
Ed.