RFR: 8266453: Shenandoah: Disable write protections before patching nmethod in nmethod_barrier on MacOSX/AArch64

Wed May 5 12:56:52 UTC 2021

On Mon, 3 May 2021 18:58:43 GMT, Zhengyu Gu <zgu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Some of tier1/tier2 tests failed on MacOSX/AArch64. The fix is similar to what JDK-8265984 does for ZGC, that disable write protections when patching code.
> 
> Test:
>   tier1 and tier2 with Shenandoah GC on MacOSX/AArch64

Thanks, looks good!

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Marked as reviewed by rkennke (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3843