Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Hohensee, Paul]

Having got that out of the way, how should we proceed with starting work? Maybe one of the Alibaba folks can post a webrev?

On 12/8/18, 12:58 AM, "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

    On 12/7/18 9:54 PM, Hohensee, Paul wrote:
    
    > My understand is that CSRs are not only for Java specification
    > changes, but also for behavioral changes. E.g., I needed a CSR
    > for a G1 JMX bugfix, see
    > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8195115 and the
    > corresponding CSR
    > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196719.
    
    That seems excessive. Personally speaking, I am very much not in
    favour of process for process's sake.
    
    Oracle has its own way of doing things, and I suspect that some
    of it is inntended to introduce some friction in order to
    prevent excessive churn.
    
    > Since bakporting JFR will produce different JVM behavior (well,
    > new JVM behavior), I thought it might be necessary. If not, it
    > makes things easier.
    
    We might take a look at the JFR patches and decide that it's too
    risky to commit them because of the amount of code that is
    touched. It's hard to say without a clean set of patches.
    
    So, we must prioritize stability, but let's go with easier if we
    can.
    
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    Andrew Haley
    Java Platform Lead Engineer
    Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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