[PING] Re: About time for b21?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:43 Tue 11 Jan     , Joe Darcy wrote:
> Joe Darcy wrote:
> > On 1/10/2011 12:24 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >> On 11:26 Mon 10 Jan     , Joe Darcy wrote:
> >>
> >> snip...
> >>
> >>> Hello.
> >>>
> >>> Since you haven't run into any issues with having 7002666 in IcedTea6
> >>> 1.9, I'm satisfied to have it this build of OpenJDK 6, which should
> >>> bring b21 to a close!
> >>>
> >>> -Joe
> >> I've pushed 7002666:
> >>
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/hotspot/rev/499d2ae376ee
> >>
> >> along with two PNG backports that were approved for Deepak Bhole some 
> >> time
> >> ago but were never done:
> >>
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/0e72e58a762d
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/c267a33e76b0
> >>
> >> (copyright headers updated appropriately).
> >>
> >> Let's get b21 out the door! :-)
> >
> > Agreed!  Later this week, I'll go through my pre-promotion build and 
> > test cycle.
> >
> > -Joe
> 
> When running the HotSpot regression tests, I see two failures:
> 
> Compilation failed: Compilation failed
> 
>     * gc/6581734/Test6581734.java : CMS Old Gen's collection usage is 
> zero after GC which is incorrect
> 
> Execution failed: exit code 127
> 
>     * runtime/6929067/Test6929067.sh : Stack guard pages should be 
> removed when thread is detached
> 
> The first is due to a typo in the test case; I approve the backport of 
> 6980392 "TEST_BUG: gc/6581734/Test6581734.java has typo"
>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/hotspot/rev/21c29458b334
> to fix this.
> 
> The second test seems to make platform assumptions that aren't always 
> true, but after some looking around I don't see an existing fix in the 
> HotSpot repos.
> 
> At least the first should be fixed before b21 promotes.
> 

Yes, both of these issues are fixed in IcedTea6, the first with the 6980392
that I've now pushed to OpenJDK6.

I recall there was some discussion of a fix for the second with upstream, but
I can't find it right now and Pavel (who found the bug and fixed it) is on
vacation.

> -Joe
> 
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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