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

[David Holmes]

On 10/06/2015 8:56 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> 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

I approve, and will sponsor these two simple backports.

David
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> 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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