RFR: 8079203: aarch64: need to cater for different partner implementations

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Wow, dependence on cpuinfo format. We are struggling with PICL and KSTAT format versions on SPARC. I hope Linux have 
more fixed cpuinfo format.

Should you add this info to _features_str?

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 5/1/15 5:19 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following webrev addresses issue
> http://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8079203
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8079203/webrev
>
> The patch parses /proc/cpuinfo to obtain cpu, model, variant and revision
> information.
>
> This information is used to drive C1 & C2 code generation for minor
> differences in implementation.
>
> Please review and if approved I will push,
>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>