RFR 8u: Cherry-pick 8140584: nmethod::oops_do_marking_epilogue always runs verification code
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue May 23 14:00:04 UTC 2017
On 23/05/17 14:45, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Yeah. In this particular case, we are not diverging from upstream, for some
> notion of "upstream". Since we are planning to pull 8b152 once released anyway,
> what we do here is fast-forwarding to the future today. I guess simplicity of
> the patch + already being in upstream is enough to qualify for cherry-pick?
Yes, I think this one is OK. But we must default to "First, do no
harm." It would be awful if users in production who neither know nor
care about Shenandoah got hit by Shenandoah-related changes.
Andrew.
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