RFR (S): 8031203: remove SafepointPollOffset

[Christian Thalinger]

Thank you, Vladimir.

On Mar 12, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:

> Looks good.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
> 
> On 3/11/14 9:38 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031203
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8031203
>> 
>> 8031203: remove SafepointPollOffset
>> Reviewed-by:
>> 
>> SafepointPollOffset is only used in C1 because of JDK-4986249 which was
>> never reproducible with C2.
>> 
>> This seems to be an architecture anomaly and confined to certain chip
>> versions. An old comment of JDK-4986249 mentions "some P4's". Running on
>> any newer chips doesn't show that behavior. I suggest to remove that option.
>> 
>> CCC request was filed and approved.
>>