RFR 8232759: Remove or simplify GC.class_stats

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

On 1/8/20 12:05 PM, Ioi Lam wrote:
> Hi Coleen,
>
> The changes look good to me. Thanks for cleaning up the mess that I 
> introduced :-)

Thanks Ioi!  It was useful for a while though.
Coleen

>
> - Ioi
>
> On 1/8/20 6:26 AM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/20 12:55 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi Coleen,
>>>
>>> On 8/01/2020 10:23 am, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>>>> Summary: Make the GC.class_stats option obsolete
>>>>
>>>> open webrev at 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/2019/8232759.01/webrev
>>>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232759
>>>
>>> The fan out from that was larger than I was expecting :)
>>
>> Yes.  If we wanted such a thing to affect all metadata classes like 
>> this, there is metaspace_pointers_do() now that should be used instead.
>>>
>>> Change appears fine. May I suggest updating the bug to get rid of 
>>> the "or simplify" part.
>>
>> Ok.
>> Thanks!
>> Coleen
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Tested with tier1 on all Oracle platforms and tier2,3 on 
>>>> linux-x64-debug.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Coleen
>>>>
>>
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