RFR(L): 8031581: PPC64: Addons and fixes for AIX to pass the jdk regression tests

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Alan,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>wrote:

> On 14/01/2014 08:40, Volker Simonis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> could you please review the following changes for the ppc-aix-port
>> stage/stage-9 repositories (the changes are planned for integration into
>> ppc-aix-port/stage-9 and subsequent backporting to ppc-aix-port/stage):
>>
>

>  I'd like to review this but I won't have time until later in the week.


Thanks, that would be great.


> From an initial look then there are a few things are not pretty (the
> changes to fix the AIX problems with I/O cancellation in particular) and I
> suspect that some refactoring is going to be required to handle some of
> this cleanly.


I agree, but as I wrote, this change is intended to finally go into both
jdk9 and jkd8u and I didn't wanted to do to much refactoring for jdk8u.
Once its in and we have a working port I'd be happy to work on refactoring
the code but I think this should be done in jdk9 where we have more time
and less risks of changing the behaviour on the existing platforms.


> A minor comment is that bug synopsis doesn't really communicate what these
> changes are about.
>
>
This is the last "bulk change" which address issues in several different
areas of the class library. Follow up changes will be more specific with
better bug synopsis (I promise :).

Regards,
Volker


> -Alan.
>
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