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

[Andrew Hughes]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 12:04, Roland Westrelin <rwestrel at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> >> 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.
>
> Do we really want to backport that one? The change was backed out from
> jdk 12 because it broke zgc. And while only zgc was impacted, I'm not
> sure the fix is safe. JDK-8212673, the follow up bug, is what I would
> backport.
>
> Roland.

That's the one that has been backported. The question is whether it should
only be backported to shenandoah-jdk8u, and not upstream 8u & 11.
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