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

[Thomas Stüfe]

... Nevermind. Volker just reminded me that we can push AIX only changes
ourself. Change was pushed.

Kind Regards, Thomas

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>