RFR: 8255799: AArch64: CPU_A53MAC feature may be set incorrectly

Thu Nov 5 01:52:53 UTC 2020

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:46:36 GMT, Andrew Dinn <adinn at openjdk.org> wrote:

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> At present reading /proc/cpuinfo that is the only reliable way I know of to identify whether dcpop is a supported feature (used to force persistence of data to memory). That is needed to support use of NVRAM-backed MappedByteBuffers.

I think that comes from `getauxval() & HWCAP_DCPOP`?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1039