RFR: 8172964: [aix] AIX VM should not handle SIGDANGER

[Thomas Stüfe]

Thank you, Volker!


On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 at 17:58, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
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> Hi Thomas,
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> aside from the copyright notices which have to be updated to 2017 now
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> (no need for a new webrev however) your changes look good.
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> Thanks for fixing,
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> Volker
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
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> > Dear all,
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> > please review this bugfix for AIX.
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> > Issue
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> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172964
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> > Webrev:
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> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8172964-AIX-SIGDANGER/webrev/
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> > In short, this removes the handling for SIGDANGER from the hotspot.
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> > Handling SIGDANGER has almost no benefit for us but interferes with AIX
> OOM
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> > killing mechanism, making effects of ow-paging-space situations on AIX
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> > severe than they would need to be.
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> > For more details, please see the bug report.
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> > Thanks & Kind Regards,
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> > Thomas
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