RFR: 8332113: Update nsk.share.Log to be always verbose [v2]

[Chris Plummer]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:03:32 GMT, Leonid Mesnik <lmesnik at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/share/Log.java line 130:
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>>> 128:      * Default value is <code>0</code> a.k.a. <code>TraceLevel.INFO</code>;
>>> 129:      */
>>> 130:     private final int traceLevel = TraceLevel.TRACE_DEBUG + 1;
>> 
>> Can you explain this change?
>
> The intention is to print always all logged messages. So we should set the highest tracing level for the logger to work in debug mode.

I'm not so sure I agree with this. Do we have examples of debug logging? I think in general verbose logging has actually been used to produced a log of useful info, so always logging in verbose mode seems like a good idea, but I see debug logging as something beyond that, and may get too noisy.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19613#discussion_r1639074271