RFR: JDK-8293156: Dcmd VM.classloaders fails to print the full hierarchy [v3]

[Chris Plummer]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:51:56 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Fixes a bug in the `VM.classloaders` jcmd that causes class loaders to be omitted from the output if a parent class loader never loaded any class and therefore had no associated DCmd.
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>> The fix changes the command to not rely on the existence of a CLD structure for the loader; instead, all information (loader class name, loader name, etc) is pulled via the loader oop, which has to be always there unless its the bootstrap loader.
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>> Also, the tests were expanded to test the display of empty loaders and empty parent loaders.
>> 
>> Thanks to @dholmes-ora for finding this bug.
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> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Fix test error in GHAs
>  - feedback dholmes
>  - childs->children

Marked as reviewed by cjplummer (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10312