Stewart X Addison

> The test code is found here https://github.com/adoptium/jdk17u/blob/master/test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/loopopts/superword/TestMovingLoadBeforeStore.java I've just tried this on the dockerhost-equinix-ubuntu2004-x64-1 hsot (replacing jdk.test.lib.Utils with new `java.security.SecureRandom();`) and it seems to work ok. Things to check:...

Needs further investigation and to record the console output / test result

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lifecycle/search/?q=AIX%20Standard%20Edition explicitly lists "End of support" as the end of this month - the same as the EoSSP date although I accept that IBM may wish to support a customer...

@aixtools Regarding a plan: Yes, we should come up with one :-) I guess one important question is what the status of AIX 7.3 is - can we now get...

> I suggest rebuilding two of the AIX 7.1.5 systems to AIX 7.2 to get the expected 'build+test' chain more robust. And, considering that test-[,2] of AIX 7.2 are adopt[03,04]...

> As to build on AIX 7.2 - I forget what TLSP the current AIX 7.2 build is at. I think the ones we have labelled for build are a...

Two of the aix715 test machines (-3 and -4) have now been reimaged with 72 as per https://github.com/adoptium/infrastructure/pull/3081

Noting that after https://github.com/adoptium/ci-jenkins-pipelines/pull/622 we were building on AIX 7.2 so the builds will not run on AIX 7.1. If anyone needs an (insecure) version that will run on AIX...

So the only outstanding AIX 7.1 system that we have is build-osuosl-aix71-ppc64-1 which is currently disabled but we can hold onto that for a short time longer in the (unlikely)...

Have removed `ci.role.test` from the build boxes but to prevent the hostname issue but the above will still want to be fixed on the machine :-)