RFR(S) [8u] 8189170: Add option to disable stack overflow checking in primordial thread for use with JNI_CreateJavaJVM

[David Holmes]

Hi David,

That looks like an accurate backport of the changes. Reviewed.

Thanks,
David

On 25/01/2018 12:50 PM, David Buck wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Please review my backport of this small change to JDK 8.
> 
> bug report:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189170
> 
> original JDK changeset:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/9fd89aabb6cd
> 
> code review of original change:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2017-November/025207.html 
> 
> 
> JDK 8 webrev for review:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dbuck/8189170_jdk8_ver00/
> 
> All standard JPRT tests run and passed (hotspot testset). Effectiveness 
> of change manually confirmed with dummy JNI invocation test case.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Buck