RFR 8171988: backout of 8062389, 8029459, 8061950

[Gustavo Galimberti]

Hi Peter, Chris and Jeff.
First of: thx u for your expeditious work! ... (I know... quite a 
Christmas activity ... :) ).

Guys, please assure to run  the roll back thru JPRT so we get back to 
normal as clean as possible.
     Cheers,
     GGG

On 12/26/16 11:05 AM, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
>
> Thanks Peter!
>
> Can you give us an ETA of when you think you’ll be able to put back?
>
> thanks,
>
> -jeff
>
>> On Dec 26, 2016, at 3:35 AM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:peter.levart at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I've been told that the latest change I pushed causes some tests to 
>> fail, so I prepared a backout patch for 8062389, 8029459, 8061950:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/Class.getMethods.new/backout.09/webrev.01/
>>
>> From the stacktrace of the bug report, it seems an early 
>> initialization issue with VarHandle(s) involved. Can you shed some 
>> light into what tests are failing? But first let us backout that change.
>>
>> Regards, Peter
>>
>> On 12/26/2016 10:09 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> I'm taking a look at this...
>>>
>>> Regards, Peter
>>>
>>> On 12/26/2016 06:14 AM, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
>>>> Hi Peter -
>>>>
>>>> I just received mail from out SQE manager, saying that your last changeset has caused our test harness to hiccup.  I don’t have much more detail besides the below bug, but I’m wondering if you could do us a huge favor and roll your change back for now while it’s debugged (and so we can get our automated tests going again).
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171988
>>>>
>>>> thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -jeff
>>>>
>>>
>>
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