[8u40] request for approval: 8038268: VM Crashes in MetaspaceShared::generate_vtable_methods while creating CDS archive with limiting SharedMiscCodeSize

[Jiangli Zhou]

Hi Calvin,

Looks good.

Thanks,
Jiangli

On 10/30/2014 11:00 AM, Calvin Cheung wrote:
> The fix was pushed to the jdk9/hs-rt repo about a week ago.
> I needed to do a manual merge on the debug.cpp when the jdk9 changeset 
> was applied to 8u40. Otherwise, the fix is identical to the jdk9 version.
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038268
> jdk9 review thread: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2014-October/012792.html
> jdk9 changeset: 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-rt/hotspot/rev/f562ab17393e
> 8u40 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ccheung/8038268/8u40/webrev/
>
> thanks,
> Calvin