[jdk16] RFR: 8258384: AArch64: SVE verify_ptrue fails on some tests [v2]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 06:39:27 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_aarch64/os_linux_aarch64.cpp line 252:
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>>> 250:                                 pc, info, NULL, NULL, 0, 0);
>>> 251:         va_end(detail_args);
>>> 252:       }
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>> I'm not sure it is ok to revert this code. The fix this is part of (for JDK-8255711) was provided explicitly to re-organize the flow of control for handling of fatal errors. Reverting this code appears to undermine the goal of that issue. I would like to get Thomas Stuefe's (@tstuefe) opinion on whether it is appropriate to abort the JVM here vs returning false before accepting this specific change.
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> Sorry for the delay. I'll take a look.

Thanks for finding that, and for pinging me. Please revert this part of the change, I opened a separate issue for it (also affects ppc64): https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259539.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk16/pull/50