RFR: 8065331: Add JVM trace events for failed allocations

[Marcus Larsson]

Hi Jon,

Thank you for looking at this.

The way I intended the gc count information to be useful is to indicate if/when allocations keep failing. Problematic allocations would then have a gc count higher than 1. It's not really critical that this is the exact total, as it's just an indication, so a partial GC count could work I guess. If you think it would be better I can take a look at how I can reduce the CR by being less precise with this counter.

Thanks,
Marcus

----- Original Message -----
From: jon.masamitsu at oracle.com
To: hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net
Sent: Wednesday, 1 April, 2015 4:44:30 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
Subject: Re: RFR: 8065331: Add JVM trace events for failed allocations

Marcus,

These changes are rather extensive and the CR is rather thin
on details.  How will the GC count information be useful?
Is it critical that it be the total GC count for failed allocation?
Could some partial GC count that does not require such
extensive changes be almost as useful?

Thanks.

Jon

On 3/30/2015 3:54 PM, Marcus Larsson wrote:
> Ping!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: marcus.larsson at oracle.com
> To: hotspot-gc-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 March, 2015 7:35:08 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
> Subject: RFR: 8065331: Add JVM trace events for failed allocations
>
> Hi,
>
> Please review the following patch adding new trace events for allocations requiring GC, and GCs triggered by allocation. See the JEP for a description of these two new events.
>
> CR:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065331
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mlarsson/8065331/webrev.00/
>
> JEP:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8060092
>
> Tests:
> jprt, jtreg
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus