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

Dmitry Dmitriev dmitry.dmitriev at oracle.com
Wed Jun 24 10:39:23 UTC 2015


Hello Coleen,

Thank you for review! I address David comments and put updated webrev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ddmitriev/8078399/webrev.01/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eddmitriev/8078399/webrev.01/>

Regards,
Dmitry

On 23.06.2015 20:45, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
> Dmitry,  This code looks good to me.  Thank you for doing this.
>
> I think you can't add them to the array
>
> static ObsoleteFlag obsolete_jvm_flags[] = {
>
> because it's only XX flags that this parses.
>
> Coleen
>
> On 6/23/15 9:02 AM, Dmitry Dmitriev wrote:
>> Hello David,
>>
>> Please, see my comments inline.
>>
>> On 23.06.2015 15:49, David Holmes wrote:
>>> 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 ...
>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>> 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)
>> Unfortunately, I not understand what set of obsolete flags you mean. 
>> Do you mean os::obsolete_option method or obsolete_jvm_flags table? 
>> Since obsolete_jvm_flags is developed for "XX:" options I not see how 
>> it easily can be done. In case of os::obsolete_option methods then I 
>> will need to add these options to all implementations. Probably, I 
>> not understand you correctly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dmitry
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dmitry
>>
>



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