CFV: New jdk8u Committer: Shafi Ahmad

[Poonam Bajaj Parhar]

Hello David,

Here are the contributions that were made by Shafi:

8161144: Fix for JDK-8147451 failed: Crash in 
Method::checked_resolve_jmethod_id(_jmethodID*) 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/d18eb5b5a3d6?revcount=1000>

8166872: GPL header in 
/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1/g1RemSetSummary.cpp 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/f7b4a17a9d49?revcount=1000>

8157548: JVM crashes sometimes while starting 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/4eba7ec59722?revcount=1000>

8162419: closed/com/oracle/jfr/runtime/TestVMInfoEvent.sh failing after 
JDK-8155968 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/db2cffccdb85?revcount=1000>

8161144: Fix for JDK-8147451 failed: Crash in 
Method::checked_resolve_jmethod_id(_jmethodID*) 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/1f6b58e0bd06?revcount=1000>

8156836: SIGSEGV: Test test/compiler/jsr292/VMAnonymousClasses.java 
fails with JTREG 4.2 b02 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/649f01d13b2d?revcount=1000>

8158373: SIGSEGV: Metadata::mark_on_stack 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/001e0c530e2c?revcount=1000>

8147026: Convert an assert in ClassLoaderData to a guarantee 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/9f2a972df4da?revcount=1000>

8147451: Crash in Method::checked_resolve_jmethod_id(_jmethodID*) 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/fde446cb8e19?revcount=1000>

8150002: Check for the validity of oop before printing it in 
verify_remembered_set 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/f21c5c4d5231?revcount=1000>

8144957: Remove PICL warning message 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/1246f293a0e8?revcount=1000>

8140249: JVM Crashing During startUp If Flight Recording is enabled 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/522ea1472a62?revcount=1000>


and the following was a backport from 9 that required significant work 
to backport the changes to 8u:

6515172: Runtime.availableProcessors() ignores Linux taskset command 
<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/3a38e441474d?revcount=1000> 



Thanks,
Poonam


On 12/5/2016 4:46 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Poonam,
>
> On 6/12/2016 7:55 AM, Poonam Bajaj Parhar wrote:
>> I hereby nominate Shafi Ahmad (shshahma) to JDK 8u Committer.
>>
>> Shafi is currently a JDK 8u Author, and a member of the JVM Sustaining
>> group at Oracle. He has made many non-trivial contributions to JDK 8u 
>> [3].
>
> Some of these seem to be backports of other people's contributions. 
> Can you isolate Shafi's specific contributions, or where the backport 
> needed a non-trivial adjustment, please.
>
> Thanks,
> David
> ------
>
>> Votes are due by the end of Dec 19,  2016.
>>
>> Only current JDK 8u Committers [1] are eligible to vote on this 
>> nomination.
>> Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>>
>> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>>
>> regards,
>> Poonam
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#committer-vote
>> [3]http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/log?revcount=1000&rev=(keyword(%22shafi.s.ahmad@oracle.com%22)+or+author(shshahma))+and+not+desc(%22Merge%22) 
>>
>>