[8u20] RFR (XS): 8036619: Shark: add LLVM 3.4 support

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On 4/7/14 1:08 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
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> On Apr 7, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hotspot changes does not require approval on jdk8u-dev. Alejandro does bulk requests.
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> That’s true but in this case I thought it might not hurt.  Do all HotSpot backports require no approval no matter how big they are?

I think, we should be notified what is backported.
The only document we have is Alejandro's mail:

 > The process to get hotspot changes for 8u20 is the same
 > as the one to get changes for 7u releases. In a nutshell:
 >
 > (1) Request a review (not permission) on hotspot-dev at openjdk
 > (2) Push to jdk8u/hs-dev/hotspot (via jprt)
 > (3) NO NEED TO REQUEST approval for integration
 >
 > once the changes are in hs-dev, I will push then to the master after PIT
 > and I will request the approval for a bulk integration then

So it is not, technically, an approval but a notification and review.
It is always good to have other people look on your changes.

Thanks,
Vladimir

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>>
>> Mario, your changes are good. Christian, can you sponsor backport?
>>
>> 8u20 hotspot staging repo is:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/hs-dev/hotspot
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vladimir
>>
>> On 4/7/14 12:52 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>> You need to send a request for approval to jdk8u-dev.
>>>
>>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 14:15 +0100, Mario Torre wrote:
>>>>> Resending with correct webrev and subject :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to ask the backport of the changes made for the following
>>>>> bug report into JDK 8 (jdk8u20):
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8036619
>>>>>
>>>>> The changes apply cleanly without modification:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/zero-2014-02-24/webrev.03/
>>>>>
>>>>> The related changes for JDK 9 are here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/zero-2014-02-24/webrev.02/
>>>>>
>>>>> The discussion here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-March/012814.html
>>>>>
>>>>> and here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2014-February/012679.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't push myself, so if OK, someone would need to do for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Mario
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ping?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Mario
>>>>
>>>
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