[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: merge up to jdk8-b111

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/04/2013 07:12 PM, Andrew McDermott wrote:
> 
> Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 12/03/2013 07:14 AM, Andrew McDermott wrote:
>>> Some of the errors are tests timing out. It appears that some tests are
>>> leaving spinning JVM processes which exacerbates the problem. I haven't
>>> looked into why this is.
>>
>> Are these regressions?
> 
> I don't believe so.  The spinning processes are coming from the
> `forever' loop in os::abort() which is not reachable for `release'
> builds.

Right, so this is a catastrophic failure.

> NOTE: these invocations still had the `forever' code enabled, hence the
> errors.

No, the errors are not due to the `forever' code.  They are due to
the abort that triggered it.  The idea is that you are supposed to
attach a debugger and find out why.

If you give me precise reproducer instructions I can have a look.

Andrew.