Re: [RFC] Enhanced Garbage Collection Probe Points

[Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> > > > 
> > > > I've updated the patch slightly to reflect a correction in
> > > > psScavenge.cpp that was causing a build error when
> > > > icedtea-debug
> > > > wasn't
> > > > specified.  The rest of the patch is unchanged from before.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > And I've now pushed this.  I know it's preferred that new work
> > > goes to forest in general, but this was discussed earlier when
> > > patch was originally posted, and afaict the feeling was it
> > > would be better to move all systemtap related patches there in
> > > one step some time later[1].
> > > 
> > > Thanks Lukas for this contribution!
> > > 
> > 
> > Why has this been pushed?  We don't want more patches adding to
> > IcedTea7.
> > Please revert.
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry for the mix-up.  Andrew and I discussed this further
> offline (sorry, this did not happen in public, but neither was it
> intentionally private).
> 
> We reached the conclusion (I believe) that it would be best to
> wait and hear from Mark about plans referred to in email archive
> link below.  Mark, do you have any comment here?  Would it be
> for the best to revert here and apply instead to 7 forest?
> 
> Also, I've backported this changeset to icedtea6, and it should
> also probably go somehow to 8.  Can someone refresh me, as a
> rather seldom-contributor here, what the correct repos are for
> these?
> 

Patch needs to be applied to:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest/jdk/
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea8-forest/jdk/

and reverted from:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7/

as all patches for 7 & 8 go to the forest.

> Thanks!
> jon
>  
> > > [1]
> > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-August/020066.html
> > > 
> > 
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> > 
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