RFR(S): 8026487 : PPC64: Implement 'os::fork_and_exec' on AIX

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Christian, Vladimir,

thanks for the fast review.
I've just pushed the change to our staging repository.

Regards,
Volker


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
<vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> Looks good to me too. You can push it.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
>
> On 10/15/13 8:41 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> could you please review the following webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8026487/
>>
>> for bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8026487
>>
>> which only touches the AIX specific file src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp.
>>
>> Here's some background:
>>
>> During testing with the OpenJDK regression tests we realized that
>> we've omitted the implementation of os::fork_and_exec() on AIX. This
>> method is only required by the options -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError,
>> -XX:OnError and -XX:+ShowMessageBoxOnError if the user answers with
>> 'yes'.
>>
>> The implementation is a straightforward adaptation of the
>> corresponding Linux code.
>>
>> This change also contains the trivial implementation of
>> os::Aix::available_memory() which is only used by the trace macro
>> RC_TRACE_WITH_THREAD in VM_RedefineClasses. The implementation simply
>> calls os::Aix::get_meminfo() which had been already implemented
>> before.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>