RFR (XS): 8078399: Deprecate -Xoss, -Xsqnopause, -Xoptimize and -Xboundthreads options in JDK 9

[David Holmes]

Hi Dmitry,

On 23/06/2015 8:35 PM, Dmitry Dmitriev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review this small fix which deprecate -Xoss, -Xsqnopause,
> -Xoptimize and -Xboundthreads options in JDK 9. Also, I need a sponsor
> for this fix, who can push it.

I can sponsor this for you. But first ...

> Currently HotSpot silently ignore these 4 options. Here are description
> of these options:
> "-Xoss", "-Xsqnopause", "-Xoptimize" - EVM option leaved for
> compatibility. From Java 2 SDK for Solaris Developer's Guide: "Prior to
> version 1.3.0, the production releases of the Java 2 SDK for the Solaris
> Operating Environment shipped with a virtual-machine implementation
> known as the Exact VM (EVM). Beginning with version 1.3.0, the Exact VM
> is replaced by the Java HotSpot VM.". So, from Java 1.4 EVM is not used
> as VM for JDK on Solaris and these very old flags just silently ignored
> by HotSpot.
> "-Xboundthreads" - was used to bind user level threads to kernel threads
> on Solaris in case when new thread library is not available. But old T1
> libthread has been removed from Solaris in release 10. JDK9 requires
> Solaris 10u9 or higher. So, this flag become useless.
>
> All these options are deprecated, i.e. following warning is printed when
> option is specified: "Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option
> -Xoss was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a
> future release.". In next major release all these options can be removed.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ddmitriev/8078399/webrev.00/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eddmitriev/8078399/webrev.00/>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078399
> Tested: JPRT

Can you not add these options to the set of obsolete_flags ? (and delete 
the code that references them of course)

Thanks,
David

> Thanks,
> Dmitry