RFR(S): 6606002 jinfo doesn't detect dynamic vm flags changing

Staffan Larsen staffan.larsen at oracle.com
Wed Nov 13 23:34:48 PST 2013


Still looking for an official Review of this change.

Thanks,
/Staffan

On 11 Nov 2013, at 21:25, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:

> Ah, good catch.
> 
> Here is an updated review: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/6606002/webrev.01/
> 
> Thanks,
> /Staffan
> 
> On 11 Nov 2013, at 21:06, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
> 
>> It looks good.
>> 
>> The only one nit is about the line:
>>  160         System.out.println("Command line: "+Arguments.getJVMArgs() + Arguments.getJVMFlags());
>> 
>> If one or both of Arguments.getJVMArgs() and Arguments.getJVMFlags() return null
>> (not sure if it is the case) then the output will have "null" like this:
>>   "Command line: nullnull"
>> 
>> Would it make sense to keep the original checks for non-null strings?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Serguei
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/11/13 11:28 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>>> The problem here is that ‘jinfo -flags’ only looks at the command line, but if a user has changed a flag after the VM started (for example by using ‘jinfo -flag’) that new value does not show up.
>>> 
>>> I am changing the output so that ‘jinfo -flags’ now prints something like this:
>>> 
>>> Non-default VM flags: -XX:InitialHeapSize=268435456 -XX:MaxHeapSize=4294967296 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseParallelGC
>>> Command line: -XX:+PrintGCDetails
>>> 
>>> 
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/6606002/webrev.00/
>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6606002
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> /Staffan
>> 
> 

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