[8u60] Backport RFR: JDK-8078666 and JDK-8074312

[Seán Coffey]

Hopefully, someone from the hotspot team can help out here. These fixes 
can enter via the hotspot team forest (jdk8u/hs-dev) and don't need 
approval since Alejandro looks after that

Regards,
Sean.

On 10/06/15 10:52, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Adding in jdk8u-dev.
>
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 15:27 +0200, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could I please get JDK-8078666 and JDK-8074312 backported to 8u60? I'd
>> need a sponsor for this.
>>
>> We've been using the JDK-8078666 fix for Fedora 22 on JDK8 for a while
>> now. Similarly, the fix for JDK-8074312 is now also required for Fedora
>> 21 and we've had this patch in use since March.
>>
>> "Enable hotspot builds on 4.x Linux kernels"
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8074312
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8074312/8-backport/
>> Original review thread:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-March/017463.html
>> JDK 9 fix applies cleanly modulo copyright changes.
>>
>>
>> "JVM fastdebug build compiled with GCC 5 asserts with "widen increases"
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078666
>> Original review thread:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2015-April/017759.html
>> JDK 9 fix applies cleanly to 8u forest.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Severin
>>
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