RFR: JDK-8008790 - Promotion failed tracing event for all GCs

[Erik Gahlin]

Only reviewed the event metadata (trace.xml), but it look good! I'm not 
a Reviewer.

Erik

Jesper Wilhelmsson skrev 2/25/13 1:53 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a couple of reviews for the promotion failed tracing 
> event, now implemented for ParNew and Serial GC.
>
> I have replaced the existing counters and booleans with a 
> PromotionFailedInfo object and uses that throughout, so now promotion 
> failed reporting (through the tracing framework) looks the same and 
> reports the same data for all young collectors.
>
> I have added two new fields to the promotion failed event: firstSize 
> as reported by ParNew logging, and smallestSize which is the smallest 
> object size that failed to promote.
>
> Webrew: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwilhelm/8008790
>
> Testing: Passes JPRT and the existing promotion failed tests with all 
> collectors.
>
> Thanks,
> /Jesper