Change "8030763: Validate global memory allocation" breaks the HotSpot build on AIX

[Seán Coffey]

Volker,

Can you work this fix into the jdk8u hotspot team forest :
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/hs-dev/

Unfortunately it looks like the forest hasn't been synced up with 8u11 
changes yet. Alejandro - do you have a timeline for that ? If it's not 
going to happen shortly, we should make an exception and push the 
hotspot change to the jdk8u-dev team forest which already has the 8u11 
changes.

Please mark the bug with '8u20-critical-watch' label when you log it. 
The label can be changed to '8u20-critical-request' once the fix is 
pushed to the 8u40 mainline.

regards,
Sean.

On 18/07/14 16:53, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> File bug P2 on 8u20 and we will try to convince release team to put 
> your fix into 8u20. Only showstopper are allowed now and it looks like 
> you have showstopper.
>
> Later for jdk9 it will be forward port.
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
> On 7/18/14 8:32 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> unfortunately the merging of 8u11 into 8u-dev and 8u20 broke the
>> HotSpot build on AIX for those code lines.
>>
>> While the fix is trivial (see below) I'm not sure how to proceed with
>> this fix in order to bring it to 8u-dev and 8u20.
>>
>> The problem is that 8030763 is not in jdk9 until now so I can't fix it
>> in 9 and then backport it to 8.
>>
>> Should I just open a new bug for 8u and send out a request for review?
>> Where should this RFR be directed to - to both hotspot-dev and
>> jdk8u-dev? And who will do the actual push?
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> diff -r f09d1f6a401e src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp
>> --- a/src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp  Mon Jul 14 10:16:34 2014 -0700
>> +++ b/src/os/aix/vm/os_aix.cpp  Fri Jul 18 17:22:32 2014 +0200
>> @@ -1215,10 +1215,6 @@
>>     ::abort();
>>   }
>>
>> -// Unused on Aix for now.
>> -void os::set_error_file(const char *logfile) {}
>> -
>> -
>>   // This method is a copy of JDK's sysGetLastErrorString
>>   // from src/solaris/hpi/src/system_md.c
>>