[8u40] backport RFR(XS) 8059780: SPECjvm2008-MPEG performance regressions on x64 platforms

[Roland Westrelin]

Looks good to me.

Roland.

> On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:05 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Backport request. Changes were pushed into jdk9 2 days ago. Nighties are fine. Changes are applied cleanly to 8u sources.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/8059780/webrev/
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059780
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/b8bcacc8ccca
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir