RFR: 8245167: Top package in method profiling shows "null" in JMC

[Andrey Petushkov]

Sure. hotspot-runtime looks better candidate for me, indeed. Also, check
out JDK-8241294

Andrey

On 08.06.2020 14:27, Jaroslav Bachorík wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:05 PM Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:15 PM Andrey Petushkov <andrey at azul.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> This 'L' -checking code is activated only when the method in question is
>>> given the array (i.e. the FQN of the class is something "[L...").
>>> However the caller never applies the method to array classes, only
>>> instance classes.
>>> (and I've actually checked that "L.Main" class has appeared in the JMC's
>>> "Top packages" window)
>> Yeah, however it's not clear to me if this may change in the future
>> since the function has a side effect that it's not entirely specified,
>> that said however I think, if any, this is a bug in mainline and an
>> eventual fix should come in via an additional backport and not hold
>> this fix in 8u.
> Totally agreed - this should be done asynchronously and not held back
> by an issue in the mainline.
>
>> Can you perhaps send an email to jdk-dev to check?
> Andrey, can you start the discussion on jdk-dev?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -JB-
>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
>>
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