[8u-dev] Request for approval for CR JDK-8077276 and CR JDK-8017629

[david buck]

both changes approved for backport to 8u-dev

Here is the remainder of the review thread for 8077276:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-May/014688.html

Cheers,
-Buck

On 2016/05/20 20:41, Andreas Eriksson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like approval for JDK 8 backports of these two largepages fixes.
>
> 8077276: allocating heap with UseLargePages and HugeTLBFS may trash
> existing memory mappings (linux)
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077276
> JDK 9 changeset:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/98faabe210e9
> JDK 9 review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2015-April/014442.html
>
> This fix applied cleanly except for minor whitespace differences.
>
> 8017629: G1: UseSHM in combination with a G1HeapRegionSize >
> os::large_page_size() falls back to use small pages
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8017629
> JDK 8 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aeriksso/8017629/webrev.00/
> JDK 8 review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2016-May/005466.html
> Reviewed-by: stefank
>
> Regards,
> Andreas