RFR(M): 8031997: PPC64: Make the various POLL constants system dependant

[Volker Simonis]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 17/01/2014 11:25, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> I've compiled and smoke-tested the changes on Linux/x86_64/PPC64,
>> Windows/x86_64, Solaris/SPARC, MacOS X and AIX. On all these platforms
>> they pass all the java/nio JTREG tests in the same way like without
>> this change. This means that on Linux/MacOS they pass all 261/256
>> tests, on Windows, they pass 258 tests while the following two tests
>> fail:
>>
>> java/nio/channels/DatagramChannel/MulticastSendReceiveTests.java
>> java/nio/channels/DatagramChannel/Promiscuous.java
>>
>> But as I wrote before, these two test also fail without my changes
>> applied, so I'm confident that the failures aren't related to this
>> change.
>
> Any chance that this is firewall configuration or VPN that might be cause
> packets to be dropped? These tests should otherwise pass consistently on all
> platforms. If you have output from Linux or Solaris or OS X that you could
> send then it might help to diagnose this.
>

Yes, you're right - it was because of a "VirtualBox Host-Only Network"
network device which seems to fool the test. After I disabled it, all
tests passed successfully!

And what about the change itself :)

> -Alan