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

[Chris Hegarty]

On 11 Jan 2016, at 01:46, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

-Chris.

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