[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8266936: Add a finalization JFR event

Erik Gahlin egahlin at openjdk.java.net
Tue Apr 26 11:23:07 UTC 2022


On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:48:13 GMT, Jaroslav Bachorik <jbachorik at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Well, I tried. We heard legitimate reasons from our customers why it would make sense to them to have this particular event in an LTS version but I knew it was going to be an uphill battle ...

Imagine another customer that is updating because of a severe vulnerability and suddenly the JVM crashes so they can't upgrade. Adding events is a slippery slope and with a crash (or other issue) we might end up in situation where users don't trust to use JFR in production.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17u-dev/pull/351


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