[11u] RFR(S): 8241234: Unify monitor enter/exit runtime entries.

[Andrew Haley]

On 28/08/2020 09:57, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> I'd prefer to push this.
> I'm not really happy with 11 staying behind 11-oracle in the JVMCI issue.
> Unfortunately there is nobody in the open community to address this.
> And there are enough other changes OpenJDK 11 lacks wrt. 11-oracle.
> If this gap grows big, we can no more claim OpenJDK 11 is a valid replacement
> for the Oracle vm. 

What JVMCI issue is this? Please explain. All that I see is a faster
"slow" locking path for monitors.

> So I would continue to try to take all changes that go to 11-oracle
> to OpenJDK 11, too.
> 
> And as this is now ported to 11, let's push it.
> Anyways, it also affects C1 and other shared code, so it might
> simplify integrating follow-ups.

That is not a good reason for backporting.

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