RFR (XL) 8173715: Remove FlatProfiler

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

Gerard,  The change looks great!
thanks,
Coleen


On 8/16/17 1:48 PM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
> hi all,
>
> (this is hotspot part of the change, the jdk part is being reviewed on jdk10-dev at openjdk.java.net)
>
> The FlatProfiler (i.e. -Xprof) has been deprecated for a while, and now it’s the time to remove it.
>
> The changes are XL, but straightforward.
>
> If anyone knows of any other remnants that should still be removed, please let me know.
>
> issue:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173715
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gziemski/8173715_rev1_hotspot
>
> passes the following tests:
>
>   JPRT
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/serviceability/jvmti
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/gc
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/compiler
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/runtime
>
> Thank you.
>