src/os_cpu/linux_x86/vm/threadLS_linux_x86.cpp

rev 8364 : 8078513: [linux]  Clean up code relevant to LinuxThreads implementation
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, coleenp

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1999, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1999, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.

@@ -38,12 +38,11 @@
 // Notice that _sp_map is allocated in the bss segment, which is ZFOD
 // (zero-fill-on-demand). While it reserves 4M address space upfront,
 // actual memory pages are committed on demand.
 //
 // If an application creates and destroys a lot of threads, usually the
-// stack space freed by a thread will soon get reused by new thread
-// (this is especially true in NPTL or LinuxThreads in fixed-stack mode).
+// stack space freed by a thread will soon get reused by new thread.
 // No memory page in _sp_map is wasted.
 //
 // However, it's still possible that we might end up populating &
 // committing a large fraction of the 4M table over time, but the actual
 // amount of live data in the table could be quite small. The max wastage