[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: RFR: Bulk integration shenandoah/jdk8u -> aarch64-port/jdk8u-shenandoah 2018-12-13

[Roman Kennke]

>> Please review the following proposed changes:
>>
>> This integrates changes from shenandoah/jdk8u into
>> aarch64-port/jdk8u-shenandoah repository, reaching back to September 2018.
>> It's bugfixes, improvements and new features that have been originally
>> done in Shenandoah dev repo, and then backported to Shenandoah JDK8u
>> repo and tested there for a while too.
>>
>> List of changes:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/jdk8u-shenandoah-integration-2018-12-13/jdk8u-shenandoah-integration-2018-12-13.txt
>>
>> Webrev showing only shared-changes:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/jdk8u-shenandoah-integration-2018-12-13/webrev-shared-only.00/
>>
>> Full webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/jdk8u-shenandoah-integration-2018-12-13/webrev-all.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman
>>
> 
> Mostly ok, but for:
> 
> changeset:   10742:c935e0b6b4b2
> user:        shade
> date:        Thu Oct 25 20:38:21 2018 +0200
> summary:     [backport] Cherry-pick JDK-8212673, fix for Node::eqv_uncast
> 
> This doesn't seem to have been requested for OpenJDK 11 upstream, never mind 8u.
> Why is it being backported only to shenandoah?


Because the orginal issue has been made more or less specifically for
Shenandoah:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212603

and JDK-8212673 fixes an issue with the change. IOW, it's Shenandoah
specific.

Roman