Arm32 needs thread local handshakes support

Robbin Ehn robbin.ehn at oracle.com
Wed Aug 21 11:03:50 UTC 2019


On 2019-08-21 12:46, Aleksei Voitylov wrote:
> Thanks Robbin for the heads up. I filed issue JDK-8229971 and we are going to 
> work on it.

Thank you!

/Robbin


> 
> -Aleksei
> 
> On 21/08/2019 13:08, Robbin Ehn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We want to remove the old global safepoint code, which is unused by most archs.
>> That code path is no longer tested or maintained by us.
>> - zero I sent out a patch for fixing it.
>> - x86 can just be switched over.
>> - Arm32 still relies on this, it must implement support for it.
>>
>> Here is Andrew Haleys work for aarch64 as an inspiration for any takers:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189596
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/hs/rev/efc459cf351e
>>
>> Thanks, Robbin


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