s390x port progress: patch queue for hotspot assembled.

[David Holmes]

Hi Goetz,

On 1/07/2016 9:00 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi Java and s390x fans!
>
> I want to report about the progress in the s390x port project.
>
> I have been working internally on the port of hotspot.
> I arranged a preliminary patch queue that adds all required
> hotspot  to build openJdk hotspot from our internal s390x port.
> As expected, the amount of shared changes required is very low.
>
> I need the following 9 changes, annotated with the known T-shirt sizes:
>
> L: All the required includes of s390x files in shared files and all places
>     where the string s390x is needed.

I'd really like us to collectively expend some brain cycles on figuring 
out how to do away with the explicit platform include lists. The ever 
expanding list of platforms really bugs me (as it has since it was 
introduced).

Cheers,
David


> M: A row of S390_ONLY() macros in shared code, e.g. C1 requires some
>       of them.
> 6xS: Six 'X' size changes are currently needed that add a new field to a
>     shared datastructure or an argument to a method.
>
> XL: The s390x and linux_s390x files.
>
> TODOs:
>
> -          I probably need to do some fixes in hotspot, and adapt some functionality
>
> as our internal port is at jdk9 b107.
>
> -          Get the jdk build working.
>
> -          Run tests and fix issues.
>
> Best regards,
> Goetz.
>
>