[aarch64-port-dev ] Freeze aarch64/jdk8

[Edward Nevill]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:37 +0000, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> 
> On 25/02/16 10:25, Edward Nevill wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 10:11 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >> The jdk8 development tree at aarch64/jdk8 has been in use for some
> >> time.  I don't think we need it any more.  aarch64/jdk8u tracks
> >> upstream jdk8u far more closely: it differs from upstream only in the
> >> minimum number of places needed to get AArch64 to work.
> > 
> > Perhaps to close out the jdk8 tree it might be good to backport the following patch
> > 
> > http://openjdk.linaro.org/releases/1602/jdk8/patches/8592.patch
> > 
> > This is a really nasty, critical bug and people are still building from this tree,
> 
> I'm in the process of backporting all missing jdk8 hotspot patches into
> jdk8u. Unfortunately, one of the patches applied cleanly but made the
> changes in the wrong place (all those 0x1f and 0x3f substitutions for
> shifts were carefully misaligned by hg patch into the wrong cases). I
> have just started testing a newly patched build which corrects for this
> failure.
> 
> regards,

Hi,

This patch still does not seem to have made it into jdk8u and is still
causing random SEGVs in specjbb.

May I backport it?

Thanks,
Ed.