Request for review (s) - 8155948: Add message for CMS deprecation for some internal builds

[Jon Masamitsu]

Kim,

I fixed

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166461

so that the fix version is 9.

Jon

On 9/26/2016 2:18 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> Kim,
>
> I thought that upshot of the discussion earlier in the week was that
> the UseAutoGCSelectPolicy flag should be deprecated itself and
> so would circumvent the warning about CMS being deprecated if
> UseAutoGCSelectPolicy picked CMS.  Dima's point was that GC
> ergonomics should not pick a collector that was deprecated.
>
> Not so?
>
> Jon
>
> On 9/23/2016 3:33 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Jon Masamitsu 
>>> <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> After some discussion I've removed the handling of the
>>> UseAutoGCSelectPolicy flag from this patch.  It will be handled
>>> separately under
>>>
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166461
>>>
>>>
>>> The new full webrev is
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8155948/webrev.04/
>>>
>>> The delta is
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmasa/8155948/webrev_delta.03_04/index.html
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jon
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>> src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp
>>
>> I think this line should not be removed:
>>
>> 1807       handle_extra_cms_flags("UseAutoGCSelectPolicy uses 
>> UseConcMarkSweepGC");
>>
>> Removal of this line means that commercial builds that otherwise warn
>> about CMS being deprecated when it is selected won't warn if it is
>> selected via this mechanism.
>>
>> Similarly for the test.
>>
>> So I liked the previous version and not so much this one.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>>
>