RFR: 8u40: Thread and management extension support

[Stefan Johansson]

Thanks Mikael for looking at this.

On 2014-09-04 08:19, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On Wednesday 03 September 2014 16.34.06 Stefan Johansson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review these changes to allow thread and management extensions in
>> the VM.
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/thread-ext/webrev.00/
> This looks like a pretty clean refactoring to allow further extensions with
> per-thread data.
>
> It looks like you removed a random newline in the Thread constructor and
> another newline in the Thread class declaration.
Fixed.
> thread_ext.cpp should only need two includes:
> precompiled.hpp and thread_ext.hpp it does not reference anything in the
> Thread class.
Fixed.
> I've verified that the code which is moved outside INCLUDE_MANAGEMENT in
> management.cpp is a clean copy.
>
> With those small nits fixed immediately or deferred for future cleanup this
> looks good to me.
New webrev at:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sjohanss/thread-ext/webrev.01/

Stefan
> /Mikael
>
>> There is currently no JBS issue open for this issue but one will be open
>> shortly.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefan