Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Mario Torre]

Awesome, thanks!

Cheers,
Mario

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:22 PM Andrey Petushkov <andrey at azul.com> wrote:
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> [fixed subject, removed jfr-dev maillist]
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> In the meanwhile I’ve updated webrev with a backports of JDK-8207392 (JFR profiling for PPC) and shared part of (necessary for the latter) JDK-8159284
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> Regards,
> Andrey
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> On 14 Feb 2019, at 14:20, Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:41 PM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/11/19 1:01 PM, Mario Torre wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:29 PM Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> >> On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 19:00 +0100, Mario Torre wrote:
>> >>> Andrew, do you think we can have a repository created for this
>> >>> purpose?
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>> >> At the OpenJDK Committers Workshop a JDK 8u sandbox repository was
>> >> discussed. Perhaps that would fit the bill for this backport in a more
>> >> generic way?  "jfr-8u" branch in a jdk8u-dev/sandbox forest, perhaps?
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>> > My understanding was that this was dismissed, but I'm happy either way.
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>> > If we have an agreement on how to call the repository then Andrew will
>> > create one right away.
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>> > Btw, I think the discussion should move to jdk8u-dev alone. I'm not
>> > sure if we will want to coordinate this effort on a separate mailing
>> > list though, what do you think?
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>> I think it would be cleaner to have multiple repositories: having to deal
>> with branches make things pointlessly difficult. Maybe we should give this
>> some structure with subdirectories, so jdk8u/incubator/jfr. The advantage
>> of this is that a casual visitor is less likely to be confused.
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> I like this proposal, it is future proof as it would make it clear also if we ever had to add more of such repositories what they are for.
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> Cheers,
> Mario
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