RFR: 8190415: [JVMCI] JVMCIRuntime::adjust_comp_level must not swallow ThreadDeath

[Tobias Hartmann]

Hi Doug,

this looks good to me.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 31.10.2017 14:05, Doug Simon wrote:
> Please review this change that fixes a JVMCI code path that was swallowing ThreadDeath exceptions and thus preventing Thread.stop from working as intended.
> The webrev also contains some minor unrelated cleanup to mx_jvmci.py needed for supporting the consolidated repo.
> 
> The internal test that caught this problem is now passing.
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8190415
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dnsimon/8190415/
> 
> -Doug
>