RFR: 8266936: Add a finalization JFR event [v17]

Coleen Phillimore coleenp at openjdk.java.net
Fri Oct 15 18:16:55 UTC 2021


On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:27:54 GMT, Markus Grönlund <mgronlun at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Object.finalize() was deprecated in JDK9. There is an ongoing effort to replace and mitigate Object.finalize() uses in the JDK libraries; please see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8253568 for more information. 
>> 
>> We also like to assist users in replacing and mitigating uses in non-JDK code.
>> 
>> Hence, this changeset adds a periodic JFR event to help identify which classes are overriding Object.finalize().
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Markus
>
> Markus Grönlund has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - renames
>  - spelling

Thanks for doing the renames.  Looks good!

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4731


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