RFR: 8201318: Introduce GCThreadLocalData to abstract GC-specific data belonging to a thread

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/19/2018 04:59 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Changes should be pushed upstream before next "Graal update" pushed into OpenJDK. Changes could be modified after review 
> - it is fine since we overwrite Graal code in OpenJDK anyway with each sync.

Yes, absolutely, and it must be done in a quick manner for changes that
break Graal.  Pretty please.  :-)

It does have the unfortunate(?) effect of enforcing some synchronization
between Graal and HotSpot.

> I think this will happen not frequently and we can handle it.

Hmmm.  It's nice to hope!

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Andrew Haley
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