RFR: 8318026: jcmd should provide access to detailed JVM object information [v10]

[Kevin Walls]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:23:50 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Introduce the jcmd "VM.inspect" to implement access to detailed JVM object information.
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>> Not recommended for live production use.  Requires UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions and not included in jcmd help output, to remind us this is not a general-purpose customer-facing tool.
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> Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Argument to be named address.
>  - test nit

Thanks for the comments, addressed nits and will update further on the remaining points.

Thomas thanks for your comments.  Yes, you do see stale CompilerCommand directives etc... hanging around at times, we can only encourage good housekeeping!  Remote access over JMX is not required for this command (hidden).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17655#issuecomment-2023297192