Request for review: 7150058: Allocate symbols from null boot loader to an arena for NMT

[Coleen Phillmore]

The implementation of the Native Memory Tracker is that every "new" call 
from CHeapObj will cause a record describing the allocation (addr, size, 
pc) to be written to a per-thread storage area.   This area is later 
merged and sorted.   Since every symbol symbol allocation is a separate 
CHeapObj allocation, a lot of records are written during startup time, 
particularly when classes are being loaded.
For the boot loader, these symbols are never deallocated, since the 
symbols become unreferenced during class unloading.   So it seems a 
waste to create individual records for each.   The native memory tracker 
will report the size of the arena.

thanks,
Coleen

On 3/9/2012 2:06 PM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> ----- coleen.phillimore at oracle.com skrev:
>
>> Please review this change to allocate symbols from the boot class
>> loader into a  global arena.   This change reduces reporting traffic at
>> startup for the native memory tracking project in development.
> Why does it reduce the reporting traffic for native memory tracking?
>
> //Fredrik