RFR: 8172964: [aix] AIX VM should not handle SIGDANGER

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Thomas,

aside from the copyright notices which have to be updated to 2017 now
(no need for a new webrev however) your changes look good.

Thanks for fixing,
Volker


On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> please review this bugfix for AIX.
>
> Issue
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172964
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8172964-AIX-SIGDANGER/webrev/
>
> In short, this removes the handling for SIGDANGER from the hotspot.
> Handling SIGDANGER has almost no benefit for us but interferes with AIX OOM
> killing mechanism, making effects of ow-paging-space situations on AIX more
> severe than they would need to be.
>
> For more details, please see the bug report.
>
> Thanks & Kind Regards,
>
> Thomas