RFR(S): 8170672: Event-based tracing to support classloader instances

[harold seigel]

Hi Markus,

Other than a minor nit of traceStream.hpp's old copyright date, the 
changes look good.

Thanks, Harold


On 12/5/2016 6:33 PM, Markus Gronlund wrote:
> Greetings,
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> Kindly asking for reviews for the following changeset:
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> Bug/Enh: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170672
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> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgronlun/8170672/webrev01/
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> (this work is covered by an FC exception)
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> Summary:
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> Event-based tracing previously had little information about class loaders; a class loader was essentially treated no different than from a regular class (type information only).
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> With JDK9, supported has been added to java.lang.ClassLoader to associate a name with an individual class loader instance.
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> This changeset will allow the name information of individual class loader instances to be provided by the event-based tracing framework.
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> Aux info:
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> Some folding of the numerous macros completed as well.
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> Thanks in advance
> Markus
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