Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[guangyu.zhu]

Hi there, 

Java Flight Recorder (JFR) has been open-sourced in OpenJDK 11 for some time. The tool is very useful for trouble-shooting and performance tuning. However, a lot of Java applications are still running on JDK 8. Thus we back-ported JFR from 11 to 8 on x86-64 platform, which actually has been widely used at Alibaba. We believe it is stable enough to be contributed back to the community.  By contributing our patch, the community can help make it work on other platforms too. So, I’d like to file a JEP and propose contributing it to OpenJDK8project, then people can work together to make the patch be pushed finally. What do you think?

Thanks,
Guangyu (Greg) Zhu