RFR: 8265750: Fatal error in safepoint.cpp after backport of 8258414

[Jaroslav Bachorík]

Hi Severin,

This 11u only problem. In 16 and 17 this crash is not happening. The
bug has 'Affects Version/s' set to 11 - is there anything else that
should be set there?

Cheers,

-JB-

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 6:31 PM Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 17:43 +0200, Jaroslav Bachorík wrote:
> > Please, review this backout patch for a backport causing fatal error.
> >
> > JIRA: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8265750
> > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8265750/webrev/
> >
> > The backout changes also revert the change introduced by
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8265718 as the affected code
> > is not present any more.
> >
> > Tier 1 tests are passing on linux x64 but I have no windows machine
> > ready for JDK build and tests (as was obvious from the breakage ...).
> > So, if someone could do a test run on windows x64 (at least) I would
> > greatly appreciate it.
>
> I'm not sure this is the right bug to use. If JDK-8265750 is going to
> be a backout of JDK-8258414 in jdk head, then this would be OK. If this
> is an OpenJDK 11.0.12 only problem it would be OK too, but the bug
> doesn't say (it should say so if so). What was the course of action in
> jdk 17 and jdk 16?
>
> Thanks,
> Severin
>