[8u20] Request for approval for bulk integration of hs25.20-b02

[Seán Coffey]

Approved pending positive PIT results.

regards,
Sean.

On 31/01/2014 00:29, Alejandro E Murillo wrote:
> Requesting approval to integrate hs25.20-b02 into jdk8u20-b01.
>
> A webrev is available at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amurillo/8u20/hs25.20-b02-jdk8u20-b01.webrev/
>
> Pre-integration testing is in progress; the integration will proceed
> only after SQE has analyzed the results and approved.
>
> The fixes in the proposed integration are below.  All have undergone
> nightly testing and are already in a jdk9 repository.
>
> 8027364: PSScavenge accounts too large code section to StringTable unlink
> 8027454: Do not traverse string table during G1 remark when treating 
> them as strong roots during initial mark
> 8027455: Improve symbol table scan times during gc pauses
> 8027476: Improve performance of Stringtable unlink
> 8027746: Remove do_gen_barrier template parameter in G1ParCopyClosure
> 8028553: The JVM should not throw VerifyError when 'overriding' a 
> static final method in a superclass.
> 8030027: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on 
> Linux-amd64: SIGSEGV in JavaThread::last_java_vframe(RegisterMap*)+0xfa
> 8030955: assert(_prologue != NULL) failed: prologue pointer must be 
> initialized
> 8031045: Access checks should precede additional per-instruction checks
> 8032014: new hotspot build - hs25.20-b02
>