ARM: Enable safepoints for JIT-compiled code

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:11 Wed 11 Jan     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 01:05 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 14:31 Tue 10 Jan     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> >> I've found the bug that broke safepoints.  It turns out that safepoints
> >> do not convert a PC address to a bytecode index, so you have to set the
> >> bytecode pointer explicitly whenever at a safepoint.  I'm intend to apply
> >> this to trunk and branch, given RM approval.
> >>
> > 
> > Patches to branches require approval by one other developer, not specifically
> > the release manager.
> 
> They require at least RM approval, for the obvious practical reasons.
> 

I'm not sure what 'obvious practical reasons' you're referring to, but no they don't,
and haven't for about the last two years.  It would have been a tremendous bottleneck
if this was the case.  Also what happens in the case that the maintainer of the branch
submits a patch?  Should they get the right to dump whatever they want on the branch,
but block the work of others?  I don't think that's fair, which is why all release patches
have required approval by another developer, regardless of author, for some time.

> It doesn't make much sense for technical reviews (for correctness,
> appropriateness, and so on) to be done on the release branch patches:
> that should get done on trunk.

This doesn't happen.  It would be nice if it did, but it just doesn't on IcedTea.
We do seem to have managed it with IcedTea-Web, mainly because it was there from the
start, but there's also a smaller pool of committers there (mainly Deepak, Omair and
Jiri from what I've seen).

>  The only matter for the branch is
> whether that patch is appropriate for the branch.

This we agree on.  But that obviously requires understanding the impact of said patch.

> 
> Andrew.

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Andrew :)

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