RFR(M): 8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections".

[David Holmes]

Hi Goetz,

On 30/05/2016 7:03 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I split the test, and restricted the new one to server VMs.
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/8156923-resStack/webrev.02/

Seems okay. (I'm assuming the empty file never actually gets compiled.)

Thanks,
David

> Best regards,
>   Goetz.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Holmes [mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com]
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2016 00:42
>> To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; hotspot-runtime-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: RFR(M): 8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack
>> Areas for Critical Sections".
>>
>> On 25/05/2016 6:08 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Could someone please have a look at this change?
>>
>> I can't comment on the actual ppc changes sorry.
>>
>> The test changes don't look like they will work if used on the client
>> and/or minimal VM without tiered-compilation support.
>>
>> David
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>   Goetz.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>>>> Sent: Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2016 11:39
>>>> To: hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>>> Subject: RFR(M): 8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack
>> Areas
>>>> for Critical Sections".
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This change ports JEP 270 to ppc.
>>>>
>>>> It adapts the corresponding test to run also on ppc. Further I enabled test
>>>> cases
>>>> for the interpreter and dedicated C1/C2, which helped me to find some
>> initial
>>>> problems.
>>>> The change does not affect the behavior of any other platform.
>>>>
>>>> Please review this change. I please need a sponsor.
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/8156923-resStack/webrev.01/
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>   Goetz.
>>>