RFR [9] 8146736: Move sun.misc performance counters to jdk.internal.perf

[David Holmes]

Hi Chris,

On 10/01/2016 7:31 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> In preparation for JEP 260, the performance counters can be moved out of
> sun.misc and located somewhere more appropriate, like jdk.internal.perf.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8146736/
>
> Mandy asked whether this change should go through jdk9/hs-rt or jdk9/dev,
> I see no strong reason why is should go through hs-rt, so propose to go through
> jdk9/dev, unless there are objections. The hotspot changes are minor.

The changes are minor and I see no reason to not go through the dev 
forest, given the related changes. I've cc'd hotspot-runtime so others 
are aware.

Thanks,
David

> Note: the use of cleaner in Perf will be replaced with the proposed CleanerFactory
> when it is added.
>
> -Chris.
>