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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 14:57 +1000, David Holmes wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, David!

Cheers,
Severin

> David
> -----
> 
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >