One last (there's no time for another) Hotspot approval request for b59

[Paul Hohensee]

Igor?

Paul

Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:58:14 -0400
>> From: paul.hohensee at sun.com
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>> 6840196 NUMA allocator: crash in fastdebug during startup on Linux
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>> Turns out we don't actually test UseNUMA running on a NUMA-enabled
>> Linux, so we've just discovered and fixed a problem loading the NUMA
>> library.  Without it, UseNUMA won't work on the latest Linuxen.  A
>> simple change such that if it doesn't work then we haven't made
>> anything worse than it already is.
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>> SQE has given us a PIT waiver for it.
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> I'll approve this, but on the condition that someone actually test it on
> a NUMA-enabled Linux box before pushing the change.
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> - Mark
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