review request (S) - 8057824 methods to copy allocation context stats

[Mikael Gerdin]

Hi John,

On Tuesday 09 September 2014 10.53.25 John Coomes wrote:
> Mikael Gerdin (mikael.gerdin at oracle.com) wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Tuesday 09 September 2014 00.21.51 John Coomes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Please review this interface for copying allocation context statistics
> > > to native or java arrays.
> > > 
> > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jcoomes/8u/8u40/8057824-stats-copy/
> > 
> > Why do you add the additional entry point to the CollectedHeap superclass?
> > All the other related code seems to be specific to G1.
> > If we ever decide to extend this sort of functionality to to the other
> > collectors it's a simple change to do when we actually need it.
> 
> There is another project that is likely to use this with the serial
> collector, so this is a bit of future-proofing.  If I confirm that
> they intend to use it, are you okay with the change?

Yes. That's fine.

/Mikael

> 
> -John