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

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:19:11 GMT, Erik Gahlin <egahlin at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Imagine another customer that is updating because of a severe vulnerability and suddenly the JVM crashes so they can't upgrade.

I would argue that such crashing event is a haphazard even in a non-update release.

My point is if the event is already being used successfully in an already publicly released JDK version *AND* the changes are trivial enough to be able to reason about the correctness, I find an a-priori refusal of backporting events a bit heavyhanded.

I agree that if the changes tend to be too complex to be able to have a clean argument about their correctness we should refrain from such backports. But this would be no different from any other backport, AFAIK.

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