[9] RFR (M): 8086053: Address inconsistencies regarding ZeroTLAB

[Andrew Haley]

Hi,

On 01/11/2016 01:16 PM, Zoltán Majó wrote:
> On 01/09/2016 11:40 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 08/01/16 20:46, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>>> Looks good to me.
>> Maybe we're going to need changes for PPC and AArch64.
> 
> Yes, I think you need this patch on those platforms as well.
> 
>> I'm wondering
>> if maybe we could have some sort of way to flag such changes for
>> maintainers of those ports.  Otherwise it's just luck that I notice
>> the bug going past.
> 
> Maybe we could define a new JIRA label for this purpose. What do you 
> think about that?

That sounds like it might work.

> Also, we might need a way to signal the need to propagate changes into 
> the opposite direction (i.e., from ppc/aarch64 to the other supported 
> platforms).

Maybe so.  That hasn't happened yet, though.  The symmetry appeals to me.

Andrew.