[8u] backport of 8054478 and 8066045

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Good. Create backport CR (8u60) for 8065965.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 12/1/14 1:44 PM, Roland Westrelin wrote:
> 8u backport request. 8054478 was pushed to jdk9 last week. 8066045 is a trivial fix because of a few failures 8054478 caused during nightly testing.
>
> 8054478 doesn’t apply cleanly to 8u.
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054478
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/49dd956bc8c0
>
> Webrev with the change merged into 8u:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8054478/webrev.8u/
>
> (castnode.[ch]pp don’t exist in 8u, allocation of node with new needs to be passed Compile object)
>
> 8066045 applies cleanly
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8066045
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/8394c315d83a
>
> Note: 8054478 causes a performance regression:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065965
>
> Roland.
>