Assistance requested with JEP-181 Nest-based access control (nestmates)

[David Holmes]

On 16/05/2018 2:11 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 15/05/18 02:23, David Holmes wrote:
>> The JEP-181 RFR has just gone out with the intent to have this JEP
>> targeted and integrated by the end of the month, for JDK 11.
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-May/032228.html
>>
>> One part of this work requires platform specific changes to the
>> templateTable to address the use of invokeinterface for private
>> interface method calls. I have implemented and tested this code on x86
>> and sparc. For the other platforms I have provided the code based on
>> what I did for x86 and sparc, and on similar code for the given
>> architecture. It would be very much appreciated if I could get
>> assistance from the other platform maintainers to build and test this
>> code on each platform, and provide me with any fixes needed.
> 
> I have successfully built the AArch64 port with this patch and run some
> simple programs without problem. I am currently running tier1 tests and
> will follow-up with a status when they complete.

Thanks Andrew that's great to hear.

I should have mentioned that the key tests to run are:

hotspot/jtreg/runtime/Nestmates
jdk/java/lang/invoke/PrivateInterfaceCall.java

but tier1 one should encompass those.

Thanks again,
David

> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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