RFR: 8334371: [AIX] Beginning with AIX 7.3 TL1 mmap() supports 64K memory pages [v7]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 09:20:37 GMT, Joachim Kern <jkern at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Beginning with AIX 7.3 TL1 mmap() supports 64K memory pages. As an enhancement, during the initialization of the VM the availability of this new feature is examined. If the 64K pages are supported the VM will use mmap() with 64K pages instead of shmget()/shmat() with 64K pages due to the bad 256M alignment of shmget()/shmat().
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> Joachim Kern has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   also call to protect_memory now possible

Very good.

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Marked as reviewed by stuefe (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19771#pullrequestreview-2158195334