[8u] RFR for backport of JDK-8169931: 8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist

[Muthusamy Chinnathambi]

Ping..

May I please get a review for this?

Regards,
Muthusamy C

-----Original Message-----
From: Muthusamy Chinnathambi 
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 3:06 PM
To: HotSpot Open Source Developers <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Subject: [8u] RFR for backport of JDK-8169931: 8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist

Hi,
		 
Please review the backport of bug: "JDK-8169931: 8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist" to jdk8u-dev

Please note that this is not a clean backport due to new entries in jni.cpp.


Webrev:  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchinnathamb/JDK-8169931/webrev.01/ 
jdk9 bug:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169931 
Original patch pushed to jdk9:  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/8d26435a4c69 

Test:  Had run jtreg, jprt hotspot testset and with -XX:+ExecuteInternalVMTests.

Regards,
Muthusamy C