[hdk8u40] Request for review (s) - 8031323: Optionally align objects copied to survivor spaces

[Bengt Rutisson]

Jon,

On 2014-08-06 19:52, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>
> On 8/6/2014 2:26 AM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 14:07 -0700, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>> This is a backport from jdk9.  The patch applied cleanly.
>>>
>>> 8031323: Optionally align objects copied to survivor spaces
>>>
>>> Add the option to specify an alignment for allocations into the
>>> survivor spaces.  Survivor space allocations will overflow if the
>>> survivor spaces have not been increased.   The expected use
>>> is to align survivor space allocations to cache line sizes.
>>>
>>> This is the webrev for the patch from jdk9.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8031323/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> I made a change to the error message in arguments.cpp
>>> here.  This change was based on a review comment I received
>>> after the push to jdk9
>> I would prefer if the change to the message were made to jdk9 first, and
>> then both changes backported to 8u.
> Thomas,
>
> I will do that.  All your work to keep the jdk9 and the jdk8u sources
> in sync (and backports easier) is very much appreciated by me.
>
> All,
>
> I'm removing the webrev_delta.00 from the code review request.

That means that the backport applied cleanly, right? In that case I 
guess you don't need any reviews to push to the 8u repo. Let me know if 
I'm misunderstanding. If so, I will take a look at the webrev.00 webrev.

Thanks,
Bengt

>
> jon
>
>>
>> Otherwise it is hard to see what has already been backported and what
>> not. (Say, by diffing the the summary lines of both branches).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    Thomas
>>
>>
>>
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