Request for Approval: Backport of JDK-8205965: SIGSEGV on write to NativeCallStack::EMPTY_STACK

[Zhengyu Gu]

Hi Leslie,

The backport is approved.

Please send me *committed* patch [1] after proper tests, I will sponsor 
it for you.

Thanks,

-Zhengyu

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/sponsor/ Section 3

You should use commit message from original patch and add yourself as 
contributor, ex.

8205965: SIGSEGV on write to NativeCallStack::EMPTY_STACK
Summary: Made EMPTY_STACK non-const, so it will not be placed in 
read-only BSS section.
Reviewed-by: stuefe, martin
Contributed-by: zhaixiang at loongson.cn



On 09/18/2018 06:28 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Approved for jdk8u-dev.
> 
> regards,
> Sean.
> 
> 
> On 18/09/2018 07:48, Leslie Zhai wrote:
>> Hi Zhengyu,
>>
>> I would like to backport the fix for:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205965
>>
>> To OpenJDK 8 updates dev:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev
>>
>> The fix is mostly the same as the version that was committed in 12, 
>> here is the patch:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8205965_8u/webrev.00/
>>
>> The patch was reviewed, thanks for your review!  Here is the relevant 
>> thread:
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007860.html 
>>
>>
>> A patch by Loongson!  Please sponsor it, thanks a lot!
>>
>