RFR: 7195: GC confguration with GC Flags

[Marcus Hirt]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:30:12 GMT, Brice Dutheil <github.com+803621+bric3 at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This pull request proposes to display related garbage collector flags.
> 
> **Motivation**
> 
> When turning the GC flag knobs, it is useful to be able to quickly see
> the GC configuration, however the _GC configuration_ page only show 3 
> events, if one wants to have a look at flags he has to either check
> the command line or inspect the _JVM internal_ page to find relevant
> GC flags. Therefore having these flags right there is useful to get
> a quick picture of the current configuration.
> 
> **Current limitations**
> 
> 1. At this time the selected flags depends on the GC algorithm which is 
>    derived from the name of the old collector name. This is simple, 
>    however it prevents to identify EpsilonGC because whose old 
>    collector name is `SerialOld`, which is the same as SerialGC.
> 
> 2. There are some global flags in `gc/shared/gc_globals.hpp` that 
>    I didn't include as I didn't use most of them. I'm not sure these 
>    flags are seen much in the wild.
> 
> 
> **Remarks**
> 
> As mentionned above the use of the OldCollector name may not be the 
> best choice, I would like to refactor this part to use the `Use*GC`
> flags instead. I am a bit unsure at this time how to use the 
> existing API.

Marked as reviewed by hirt (Lead).

Sorry for the delay @bric3, and thank you your contribution! :)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jmc/pull/230