8024648: 8016131 breaks Zero port was (Re: [7u communication] JDK 7u40 released today!)

[Alejandro E Murillo]

On 9/12/2013 2:45 AM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Alejandro,
>
> 8022188 addresses a fix to Zero port necessary since 8016131 and 
> 8016697 integrations to hs25.
> Since 8016697 isn't in hs24, it might be better have the new bug ID 
> follow this issue [1]. I've assigned that to Andrew and he already has 
> a changeset in icedtea [2].
sounds good
>
> I understand that there's a new hsx forest naming convention for hsx 
> fixes targeting jdk7u [3]. Please ping the jdk7u-dev at openjdk.java.net 
> mailing list when this new forest structure is in place.
yes. Will do.
We will also import the appropriate changeset for 8024648 and will push 
it via JPRT
(for minimal testing purposes) once the repo is in place.

thanks
Alejandro

>
> regards,
> Sean.
>
> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8024648
> [2] 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.4/hotspot/rev/09f439dfd7b9
> [3] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2013-August/010683.html
>
> On 11/09/2013 23:02, Alejandro E Murillo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 8024648: 8016131 breaks Zero port
>>>> That was part of my point.  There's some mention of 7u40 appearing 
>>>> in mid-September
>>>> and then it suddenly appears yesterday evening, with no further 
>>>> warning.  I was still
>>>> testing builds of it on various platforms and would have liked to 
>>>> have include the Zero
>>>> fix in u40.
>>> This issue should have been raised back in early August when 8022188 
>>> was reported. Has anyone been testing Zero builds for 7u codebase? 
>>> It's a team effort. 7u40 has been ramping down since mid June [1]
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure there's much point putting it in u60 as no doubt 
>>>> they'll be a further HotSpot pull
>>>> which will pick up 8022188 [0] already mentioned by Omair. I didn't 
>>>> find that changeset
>>>> until I'd already written the same fix (identical in fact) for u40 
>>>> and Omair's couldn't be
>>>> backported anyway as it carries other changes (a habit I, 
>>>> incidentally, prefer to avoid).
>>>> I'm happy to push my version though, if wanted.
>>>>
>>>> However, my main concern is that u40 won't built Zero.  Are there 
>>>> going to be no further updates to it,
>>>> not even for security fixes?
>>> Let's get the fix into the 7u forest (via hsx). CPU changesets get 
>>> pushed to the jdk7u forest when the CPU releases.
>> I will bring this to the 7u forest in the next couple of days
>> via the new hsx repo for 7u (hsx/jdk7u/hotspot, which will be created 
>> soon).
>>
>> Just to double check, we basically need to backport this changeset:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/c54a3122f9c8
>>
>> correct? 
>

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Alejandro