RFR (XL): Backport JDK9 Shenandoah to JDK8u

[Roman Kennke]

I just pushed this little attendum without review:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/shenandoah/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/db98996d26b2

It consumes the arguments for our dummy-logging in release builds. Same
hack as in JDK9 logging.

Roman

Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2016, 22:24 +0100 schrieb Roman Kennke:
> This huge change backports the current state of JDK9 (minus the last
> bunch of patches) to jdk8u:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/backport-jdk8/webrev.00/
> 
> Not sure if this can be reasonably reviewed. ;-)
> 
> I checked this line by line and also compared it to our baseline repo
> (
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk8u/hotspot/).
> 
> The one thing missing is changes in src/share/vm/opto and
> src/share/vm/adlc, but Roland is working on those.
> 
> I've checked with SPECjvm2008 and jcstress is on the way.
> Unfortunately, I could not get the jtreg stuff to work.
> 
> Ok to go in?
> 
> Roman