RFC: Backport HugePage support to IcedTea6 1.10

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:48 Wed 04 Jan     , Deepak Bhole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached patch backports HugePage support into 1.10. It combines these two
> patches, merged into one because the latter renames files from the first for
> the most part and neither will apply without updating anyway:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/e32979d54978
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/320b7ef798ed
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 2012-01-04  Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> 
>     S7037939, S7034464: Import Andrew Haley's HugePage support patches
>     * Makefile (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Add 7034464-hugepage.patch,
>     7037939-hugepage.patch and 7043564-hugepage.patch.
>     * patches/openjdk/7034464-hugepage.patch: Support transparent huge
>     pages on Linux available since 2.6.38
>     * patches/openjdk/7037939-hugepage.patch: Disable adaptive
>     resizing if SHM large pages are used
>     * patches/openjdk/7043564-hugepage.patch: Import from upstream
>     * NEWS: Add S7037939, S7034464
> 
> Okay for push?
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak

Looks good, assuming it builds.  Please add a newline after the 'New in release...'
line in NEWS.  Then it's good to push.

-- 
Andrew :)

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Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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