RFR (XL) 8173715: Remove FlatProfiler

[David Holmes]

Hi Gerard,

Not a review yet.

On 17/08/2017 3:48 AM, 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 jdk part should be reviewed on core-libs-dev.

The build change should be reviewed on build-dev. And you have more work 
to do there to remove fprof from the set of known jvm features - see:

  common/autoconf/hotspot.m4

Thanks,
David

> 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.
>