RFR: 8264412: AArch64: CPU description should refer DMI [v4]

[Gerard Ziemski]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 02:03:15 GMT, Yasumasa Suenaga <ysuenaga at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `jdk.CPUInformation` event on AArch64 has valid CPU description in [JDK-8262491](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8262491), however it does not work on UEFI booted machine.
>> 
>> [JDK-8262491](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8262491) refers device tree to get board name, however it does not exist on UEFI. We need to refer DMI.
>> However we need to have root privilege, so we refer /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id to avoid it.
>> 
>> We can get board name from /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name, but some machine set empty string to it. So we will refer /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name as a fallback.
>> 
>> For example, we can get following CPU description on AWS A1 instance after this change:
>> 
>> jdk.CPUInformation {
>>   startTime = 05:28:24.506
>>   cpu = "AArch64"
>>   description = "AArch64 a1.2xlarge  0x41:0x0:0xd08:3, simd, crc, aes, sha1, sha256"
>>   sockets = 8
>>   cores = 8
>>   hwThreads = 8
>> }
>
> Yasumasa Suenaga has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   check the contents whether it is just "\n"

Marked as reviewed by gziemski (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3259