[RFA] JDK-8194739 Zero port of 8174962: Better interface invocations

[David Buck]

Hi!

Thank you for the code review thread link. I just added a noreg-build 
label to the bug report as well.

Please consider this backport approved for 8u-dev.

Cheers,
-Buck

On 2018/02/20 19:00, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 20/02/18 07:59, David Buck wrote:
>> Was there a public review [0] of the changes that were pushed into 9/10/11?
> [A different Andrew answers]
> 
> Indeed there was a very long and convoluted review for the full patch
> and backport process -- this relates to the problems created when the
> latest CPU failed to incorporate all the necessary changes to make the
> final jdk9 function correctly.
> 
> The review of this present patch starts here
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-January/029806.html
> 
> and was oked by Coleen here
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-January/029818.html
> 
> We (Red Hat) have applied this patch to our internal shenandoah and
> aarch64 jdk8 trees (downstream from jdk8u). It has also been applied ot
> jdk10 and the jdk/jdk and jdk/hs trees. the paper trails for those
> latter updates is available if you want but is not really releevant.
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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