What are the make/solaris/makefiles/reorder_* files ?

[Paul Hohensee]

We "should" run the script when we're about to release a new version of 
the vm.
It's not worth running until we've got a stable release.

Paul

David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Thanks Vladimir. So these files are out of date in JDK7 too - hadn't 
> realized that. It was the long list of linker warnings (in our 
> product) that I wanted to get rid of too ... maybe I should just drop 
> the use of the reorder list in the mapfile entry.
>
> David
>
> Vladimir Kozlov said the following on 12/17/08 13:41:
>> These files are used by solaris linker to map hot VM methods
>> into first memory pages for libjvm.so to improve startup (C1)
>> and performance of VM code (C2). Several years ago it gave
>> us up to 2% improvement in jbb2000.
>>
>> The script make/solaris/reorder.sh was used to generate these files,
>> it builds libmcount.so from JDK sources jdk/make/tools/reorder/
>> and profiled version of VM to use hprof tool to find hot methods
>> (reorder_* files contain the list of all VM methods ordered
>> by invocation count) by running several benchmarks and collecting data.
>>
>> But the script is broken now. Several years ago I thought to fix
>> it and clean reorder_* files to avoid long list of warnings
>> when product version of libjvm.so is built. But I never had time
>> to finish it. There was also an idea to use Sun's Performance Analyzer
>> to generated these map files.
>>
>> And I think, reorder_COMPILER1_amd64 is copy of reorder_COMPILER1_i486.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vladimir
>>
>> David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>>> Eg make/solaris/makefiles/reorder_COMPILER1_amd64
>>>
>>> What are these files? How are they generated and maintained?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David Holmes