Review Request (s) - 7015169 GC Cause not always set

[Igor Veresov]

Looks good.

igor

On 1/27/11 4:00 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Following up on a mail discussion called "jstat LGCC column shows" on
> this mailing list. Yasumasa Suenaga has agreed to contribute the patch
> that he made to the OpenJDK project. I am helping him to get it pushed
> into the OpenJDK repositories.
>
> We created bug 7015169 for this issue. It is not available on
> http://bugs.sun.com yet, but I hope it gets published there soon.
>
> To push we need a couple of reviews. Here is the webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/7015169/webrev.00/
>
> The problem was that _gc_cause was not set by all VM_GC_Operation that
> can request a GC. This was visible through jstat and with Yasumasa's fix
> the LGCC columns shows the correct GC cause.
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt