RFC: jdk/jdk10 -> sh/jdk10 merge

[Roman Kennke]

Am 22.11.2017 um 12:56 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:
> Hi,
> 
> We have prepared a (very painful) merge from jdk/jdk to sh/jdk10:
>    2991 files changed, 130102 insertions(+), 177022 deletions(-)
> 
> ...where Hotspot changes are:
>     671 files changed, 14242 insertions(+), 24451 deletions(-)
> 
> If you are curious, these are the changes that merge brings:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/shenandoah/merge-jdk-jdk-2017-11-22/hotspot.patch
> 
> Notable changes: suspendible thread set handling is better, code cache roots handling is better
> (still needs to be hooked up to Shenandoah better), CLDG roots handling is better (need to revisit
> how Shenandoah uses that facility), all sorts of method renames and cleanups (e.g. cmpxchg_ptr ->
> cmpxchg).
> 
> Unless there are strong concerns about this, I'd like to push and get more regular testing done on
> new sh/jdk10. It is possible it regresses something our acceptance tests are not covering.
> 
> Caveat: sh/jdk10 now requires JDK 9 as bootstrap JDK. Old jtreg still works.
> 
> Testing: hotspot_gc_shenandoah {fastdebug|release}, specjvm with verification
> 
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
> 

Please do it.

Roman