Help with downporting 8225019: Update JVMCI

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Hi Severin,

that's great!  
11.0.8 is fine obviously!
This is good to know because then it makes sense to 
postpone changes that depend on it.

Best regards,
  Goetz.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com>
> Sent: Freitag, 6. März 2020 13:47
> To: Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>; Lindenmaier, Goetz
> <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>
> Cc: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net; hotspot-compiler-
> dev at openjdk.java.net; graal-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Help with downporting 8225019: Update JVMCI
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 13:14 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> > Hi Goetz,
> >
> > I think Severin has recently started to work on this issue:
> > https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/2196#issuecomment-593304532
> 
> Yes, but it's unclear whether or not we'll complete this for 11.0.7.
> 11.0.8+ seems more likely at this point.
> 
> Thanks,
> Severin
> 
> > Best regards,
> > Volker
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 10:57 AM Lindenmaier, Goetz
> <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there anybody in the community that is interested in JVMCI
> > > in jdk11u and could look into downporting this change?
> > >
> > > If someone supplies the patch, I'll test and sponsor it.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >   Goetz.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
> > > > Sent: Freitag, 3. Januar 2020 17:33
> > > > To: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net
> > > > Cc: 'graal-dev at openjdk.java.net' <graal-dev at openjdk.java.net>; hotspot-
> > > > compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> > > > Subject: Help with downporting 8225019: Update JVMCI
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am working on downporting 11.0.7-oracle fixes to OpenJDK
> > > > 11.0.7.
> > > >
> > > > I encountered "8225019: Update JVMCI" which is applying badly.
> > > > It has lots of rejects. There are various places that are not
> > > >  trivial to resolve.
> > > >
> > > > I don't have any background in JVMCI/AOT and SAP does
> > > > not use it (yet).
> > > > I would appreciate if someone with appropriate background
> > > > or interest could step up and bring this change to jdk11u-dev.
> > > >
> > > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8225019
> > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2019-
> > > > May/034050.html
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >   Goetz.