RFR: 8007806: Need a Throwables performance counter

[Mandy Chung]

On 2/25/2013 8:30 AM, Nils Loodin wrote:
> I changed it to
>
> sun.throwables.numThrowables
>
> in http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/8007806/webrev.01/
>
> Is this better? However, bear in mind that it's not exactly specified 
> where this is going to be incremented from yet. Nothing in this change 
> states that it's going to be incremented from the Throwable constructor.

I'm surprised to see adding a performance counter for an "external" 
instrumentation agent to use.   I understand that we agree that dynamic 
bytecode instrumentation is a more appropriate approach to instrument 
and count the number of thrown throwables.    I guess I am missing the 
big picture how you want the serviceability tools (jstat etc) to work 
with the perf counters and tracing events.

Mandy