RFR: 8192123: Zero should use compiler built-ins for atomics on linux-arm

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Nov 29 15:45:30 UTC 2017


On 11/29/2017 04:39 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>> Hmm.  This doesn't fix a bug, and there's a non-zero probability of
>> introducing one.  I guess it should be OK, but this is a combination
>> of performance improvement (possibly) and cleanup.
>>
> Please save this change for JDK 11.

I just made the same obvious change as I did for m68k. Is there really
a risk of introducing a regression?

It only affects Zero after all which is not officially supported, is it?

The supported ARMv7 Server build is not affected as this change is
below the linux_zero directory.

Adrian

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