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

[Igor Veresov]

Paul, Mark --

I've tested the fix on the affected platforms. So, I'm sure it's going 
to work OK.

igor

On 5/12/09 3:12 PM, Paul Hohensee wrote:
> Igor?
>
> Paul
>
> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:58:14 -0400
>>> From: paul.hohensee at sun.com
>>
>>> 6840196 NUMA allocator: crash in fastdebug during startup on Linux
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> SQE has given us a PIT waiver for it.
>>
>> I'll approve this, but on the condition that someone actually test it on
>> a NUMA-enabled Linux box before pushing the change.
>>
>> - Mark