M3 stabilization requests for 2009/5/5

[Phil Race]

Mark Reinhold wrote:
> Today we have:
> 
>   6819098  igor.veresov     G1: reduce RSet scanning times
> 
>   6829013  antonios.printe  G1: set the default value of
>                             G1VerifyConcMarkPrintReachable to false
> 
> Paul says: Two G1 fixes, independent of anything but G1.  G1 is
> experimental at the moment, but we'd like to put our best foot forward.
> All G1 fixes have gone into hs14 and hs15 so far, including these.
> 
> I'm inclined to approve these, as long as they make b59.  We're not going
> to have a b60 unless we absolutely have to.

I agree on this.

> 
>   6831225  kelly.ohair      Upgrade JPRT jobs to use newer Linux 2.6
>                             (e.g. Fedora 9)
> 
> A JPRT (Sun's internal build farm) metadata fix, which doesn't actually
> affect non-JPRT builds.  Parts of this have already gone into other
> repos.  I'll approve this one right now.
> 
>   6835796  vladimir.kozlov  Fedora 9 linux_i586-fastdebug-c2-runThese_Xcomp
>                             times out
> 
> A workaround for a gcc 4.3.0 optimizer bug; it just disables optimization
> for one file.  Low risk -- I'm inclined to approve it.
> 
>   6837004  artem.ananiev    java.awt.GraphicsDevice.setFullScreenWindow
>                             throws NPE for windows with background color
>                             not set
> 
> This doesn't seem critical for M3, but it looks like a simple change.
> Phil, Vita -- what do you think?

I think its clearly safe, so I'd allow it for b59. I believe AWT
freeze today for b59, however since there's only one other AWT b59 fix, I
expect a shorter PIT cycle is doable, but we should make it clear
its a b59 approval, not a b60 one.

-phil.

> 
> Comments by 4pm PDT please.
> 
> - Mark