RFR (XS): CR 8003985: Support @Contended annotation

[Chris Hegarty]

On 13/01/2013 23:23, David Holmes wrote:
> On 14/01/2013 4:30 AM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>> Thank you, Alan
>>
>> I already pushed it into hotspot/jdk:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-main/jdk/rev/9d5c43050210
>>
>> We will promote it as we did before with similar changes together with
>> Hotspot changes.
>
> So this seem to be becoming a new process for avoiding flag days - which
> is not a bad thing.

Agreed.

 > But previously this was only a special exception for
> jsr-292 and now we seem to be generalizing it without there being any
> proper discussion to ensure all the right pieces are place to do this
> and so that everyone knows what is being done.

I hope this "new" process can work both ways, push changes into the 
hotspot repo from TL.

-Chris.

>
> David
> -----
>
>> Thanks,
>> Vladimir
>>
>> On 1/13/13 7:05 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 11/01/2013 23:23, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> This is the JDK side of changes for supporting @Contended:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8003985/webrev.jdk.02/
>>>>
>>>> Status:
>>>> - This change is ready to be pushed; due to licensing reasons with
>>>> jsr166, we can only commit the stub; regular jsr166 sync will bring the
>>>> updated annotation later.
>>>> - JEP-142 is in Funded state (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/142)
>>>> - CCC is in place, and Approved.
>>>>
>>>> I need a sponsor to push this.
>>>>
>>> Looks fine (although I do not like seeing this going into sun.misc).
>>>
>>> Do you want this to go into in via jdk8/tl? If so I can push it for you
>>> today, just let me know.
>>>
>>> -Alan.