[8u] RFA for JDK-8169931: '8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist'

[Seán Coffey]

Approved for JDK 8u. Please ensure that you've taken into account the 
JDK 9 backout which appeared to happen for the first attempt in fixing 
this issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170355

regards,
Sean.


On 02/01/2018 12:51, Muthusamy Chinnathambi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> May I get the approval of backport of JDK-8169931: '8k class metaspace chunks misallocated from 4k chunk freelist'  to jdk8u.
>
>
> JDK9 bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169931
> Jdk9 review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-November/025291.html
> Jdk8 review threads: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-December/029611.html
>                       http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-January/029677.html
> Webrev link: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchinnathamb/JDK-8169931/webrev.02/
>
> Regards,
> Muthusamy C