RFR: 8308995: Update Network IO JFR events to be static mirror events [v4]

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:53:12 GMT, Tim Prinzing <tprinzing at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The socket read/write JFR events currently use instrumentation of java.base code using templates in the jdk.jfr modules. This results in some java.base code residing in the jdk.jfr module which is undesirable.
>> 
>> JDK19 added static support for event classes. The old instrumentor classes should be replaced with mirror events using the static support.
>> 
>> In the java.base module:
>> Added two new events, jdk.internal.event.SocketReadEvent and jdk.internal.event.SocketWriteEvent.
>> java.net.Socket and sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl were changed to make use of the new events.
>> 
>> In the jdk.jfr module:
>> jdk.jfr.events.SocketReadEvent and jdk.jfr.events.SocketWriteEvent were changed to be mirror events.
>> In the package jdk.jfr.internal.instrument, the classes SocketChannelImplInstrumentor, SocketInputStreamInstrumentor, and SocketOutputStreamInstrumentor were removed. The JDKEvents class was updated to reflect all of those changes.
>> 
>> The existing tests in test/jdk/jdk/jfr/event/io continue to pass with the new implementation:
>> Passed: jdk/jfr/event/io/TestSocketChannelEvents.java
>> Passed: jdk/jfr/event/io/TestSocketEvents.java
>> 
>> I added a micro benchmark which measures the overhead of handling the jfr socket events.
>> test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/net/SocketEventOverhead.java.
>> It needs access the jdk.internal.event package, which is done at runtime with annotations that add the extra arguments.
>> At compile time the build arguments had to be augmented in make/test/BuildMicrobenchmark.gmk
>
> Tim Prinzing has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   less exception filtering when fetching socket read timeout

One other thing is that the comments in Socket.SocketInputStream and Socket.SocketOutputStream where it has "This class is instrumented by Java Flight Recorder (JFR) to get socket I/O events" can be removed now.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14342#issuecomment-1687765868