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

[Stefan Johansson]

Hi Jesper,

On 2014-09-16 23:51, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> Thomas Schatzl skrev 16/9/14 22:16:
>> 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.
>
> OK, will do.
Changes look good.

Stefan

>
> /Jesper
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Thomas
>>
>>