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

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Thomas,

+1

This really seems the right thing to do here.

Best regards
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hotspot-runtime-dev [mailto:hotspot-runtime-dev-
> bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Volker Simonis
> Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2017 17:59
> To: Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
> Cc: ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net; hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: RFR: 8172964: [aix] AIX VM should not handle SIGDANGER
> 
> 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