pre-submit tests for github PRs

[David Holmes]

On 23/05/2022 8:22 am, Philip Race wrote:
> Why is it that the vast majority of PRs are recording spurious looking 
> failures of github pre-submit tests ?
> 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pulls?q=type%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Arfr
> 
> There seems to be so much noise in these that I pay no attention to them 
> any more (except for jcheck)
> but they seem to cause concern in some contributors who can't tell what 
> they might have broken
> 
> Even weirder is that we test Linux x86 there ?? When it isn't a 
> mainstream platform. Why ?
> Especially since it seem to be the most common failure.

GHA tests a range of OpenJDK ports, not just the "mainstream platforms".

The existing linux-86 failures (and others) are due to the Loom 
integration which only fully supports a couple of platforms and which 
broke all the other ports upon initial integration. Some folks in the 
community have been working through things to fix that.

David

> -phil.