RFR(M): 8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections".

[David Holmes]

On 25/05/2016 6:08 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please have a look at this change?

I can't comment on the actual ppc changes sorry.

The test changes don't look like they will work if used on the client 
and/or minimal VM without tiered-compilation support.

David

> Thanks,
>   Goetz.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 11:39
>> To: hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: RFR(M): 8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas
>> for Critical Sections".
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This change ports JEP 270 to ppc.
>>
>> It adapts the corresponding test to run also on ppc. Further I enabled test
>> cases
>> for the interpreter and dedicated C1/C2, which helped me to find some initial
>> problems.
>> The change does not affect the behavior of any other platform.
>>
>> Please review this change. I please need a sponsor.
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/8156923-resStack/webrev.01/
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Goetz.
>