Request for review (S): 7166894 Add gc cause to Full GC logging for all collectors

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Yup, I don't think it would simplify the code but rather make any potential
maintenance easier, I suspect.  For example (and it's a stretch), if you
wanted to change the size of the message buffer, you'd modify just one
place.  However, this is very minor so your call.

Thanks,

Vitaly

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On May 7, 2012 9:41 AM, "Bengt Rutisson" <bengt.rutisson at oracle.com> wrote:

> **
>
> Hi Vitaly,
>
> Thanks for looking at this!
>
> On 2012-05-07 15:31, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
>
> Hi Bengt,
>
> The allocation of the buffer to hold the string and sprintf'ing to it is
> repeated at the places you changed.  Do you think it's worth it to factor
> that out into a common function or maybe some stack allocated class whose
> destructor would free the message buffer? Just a thought ...
>
>
> I see your point, but I'm not sure this would actually simplify the code.
>
>  Also, probably better to use snprintf instead of sprintf.
>
>
> Good point. I'll fix this. This code fragment is actually copied from
> existing G1 code, so I'll go back and change that too.
>
> Thanks again for looking at it!
> Bengt
>
>  Regards,
>
> Vitaly
>
> Sent from my phone
> On May 7, 2012 8:35 AM, "Bengt Rutisson" <bengt.rutisson at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can I get a couple of reviews of this simple change:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/7166894/webrev/
>>
>> Background:
>> I recently pushed a similar fix for G1 as "7163848: G1: Log GC Cause for
>> a GC". That fix adds the GC cause information to all G1 GCs. It was
>> discussed if we should do this for all collectors and we came to the
>> conclusion that it would be fairly safe to do it for all Full GCs. These
>> log messages already contain the text "(System)" or "(System.gc())" when a
>> System.gc() happens and PrintGCDetails are enabled. Now they will always
>> contain the cause in parenthesis, even when only PrintGC is enabled.
>> Hopefully most parsing will work with this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
>>
>
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