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

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi,

I still need a sponsor. Could someone from Oracle please review and sponsor
the change? Thank you!

Kind Regards, Thomas

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> please review this bugfix for AIX.
>
> Issue
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172964
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8172964-AIX-SIGDANGER/webrev/
>
> In short, this removes the handling for SIGDANGER from the hotspot.
> Handling SIGDANGER has almost no benefit for us but interferes with AIX OOM
> killing mechanism, making effects of ow-paging-space situations on AIX more
> severe than they would need to be.
>
> For more details, please see the bug report.
>
> Thanks & Kind Regards,
>
> Thomas
>