RFA: 8173941: SA does not work if executable is DSO

[Rob McKenna]

Approved, but please add an appropriate noreg label to the bug. Also
please work with the serviceability team to get this pushed.

    -Rob

On 14/02/17 10:16, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> JBS:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173941
> 
> 9 changeset:
>   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/b3d95edd4467
> 
> 9 review:
>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2017-February/020968.html
>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2017-February/020973.html
> 
> In modern Linux e.g. Fedora 25, executables are built as DSO for security [1].
> java command in OpenJDK which is provided by distribution is also DSO.
> However, SA does not work with DSO executables.
> 
> Currently, OpenJDK 8 in Fedora 25 is built as DSO.
> So I want to contribute this patch to jdk8u.
> 
> 
> I'm not a committer of jdk8u. So I need a sponsor.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yasumasa
> 
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE