RFR: Forward port of 8055006 - Store original value of Min/MaxHeapFreeRatio

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 20:32 +0200, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The fix for JDK-8055006 was reviewed by several engineers and was pushed 
> directly to 8u40 due to time constraints. This is a forward port to get the same 
> changes into JDK 9.
> 
> There are two webrevs, one for HotSpot and one for the JDK.
> 
> The 8u40 HotSpot change applied cleanly to 9 so if this was a traditional 
> backport it wouldn't require another review. But since this is a weird situation 
> and I'm pushing to 9 I'll ask for reviews just to be on the safe side.
> Also, the original 8u40 push contained some unnecessary changes that was later 
> cleaned up by JDK-8056056. In this port to 9 I have merged these two changes 
> into one to avoid introducing a known issue only to remove it again.
> 

I would prefer if you pushed all changes in the order they were applied
at once, even the ones that were buggy and their fix.

Combining changesets during porting makes comparing source trees to find
changesets that might have been overlooked very hard.

Thanks,
  Thomas