[8u] Request for Approval: 8154210: Zero: Better byte behaviour

[Seán Coffey]

On 25/04/16 10:02, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 09:52 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> Looks like the JDK 9 master record needs a noreg- label. Please add one
>> : http://openjdk.java.net/guide/changePlanning.html#noreg
>>
>> Approved.
> Thanks, Sean. I've added a noreq-hard label.
>
> How is the push process for this going to work? Will this be handled by
> the bulk-backport-hotspot-changes-to-jdk8-process or are we good to
> push to the jdk8u dev tree?
there is only one team integration forest for the JDK 8 Updates project 
now. That's jdk8u-dev. Please ensure all tests pass and push your 
changes to there.

regards,
Sean.
>
> Cheers,
> Severin
>
>> Regards,
>> Sean.
>>
>> On 25/04/2016 09:45, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please approve the following Zero-only change for jdk8u. The current
>>> tree for JDK 8 is broken for a Zero JVM build[1]. The failure is caused
>>> by the April CPU patches.
>>>
>>> The fix for this went into 9 already[2] and the JDK 8 is essentially
>>> the same patch. Only whitespace differences make the JDK 9 patch not
>>> apply.
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154210
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8154210/webrev.jdk8.01/
>>> HG exported changeset:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8154210/JDK-8154210-better-byte-heviour-zero.jdk8.export.patch
>>>
>>> Review thread for JDK 9:
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-April/022824.html
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Severin
>>>
>>> [1] http://builder.classpath.org/jenkins/job/OpenJDK8_jdk8u_Zero/61/console
>>> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/3d7d041acb59