M3 stabilization requests for 2009/5/5

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Phil Race wrote:
>
>
> 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

All these changes sound fine to me too.

-Joe