RFC: Backport HugePage support to IcedTea6 1.10

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2012-01-04 19:02]:
> 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.

Thanks, new line added and pushed.

Cheers,
Deepak

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