[Preliminary Review]: Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Mario Torre]

On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 10:10 +0000, Andrey Petushkov wrote:
> Sorry, no matter how hard I try I cannot repeat this problem :(
> If I configure with --disable-jfr there are no JFR-related VM flags,
> diagnostic commands or beans (checked with command line and JMC). 
> So I see no means to initiate JFR dump.
> Could you please elaborate what target platform you're building for
> (I've checked on x86_64) and your exact configure parameters

This is interesting.

So, my system is a Fedora 28, x86_64, at this moment, I'm using this
configure:

$ sh configure --with-extra-cflags=-Wno-error --disable-jfr

The configure picks up the option correct as far as I can see
(config.log):

ENABLE_JFR='false'

If you can't replicate it, it's likely something wrong I'm doing, so
let's step back a second and see what's the full process.

I take the patches from here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~apetushkov/jfr8/

And apply them in order:

jdk8u-jfr-incubator/zulu8-emb-dev.patch
jdk8u-jfr-incubator/jdk/jdk.patch
jdk8u-jfr-incubator/hotpost/hotspot.patch

I didn't apply the others as at this moment I'm not building any of
those targets, the patches don't contain any build related changes
anyway.

After that, I invoke my configure script, at this point no matter if I
pass  --disable-jfr or --enable-jfr I still end up with a full JFR
build.

What steps am I missing?

Cheers,
Mario

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