On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:13:05 GMT, Harold Seigel <hsei...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this change to obsolete the deprecated and aliased Trace flags.
> The now empty aliased_logging_flags support was left in arguments.cpp for
> use by trace flags that get deprecated and aliased in the future.
>
> With this change, users will get the following example messages when using
> these obsolete flags, depending on whether -XX:+... or -XX:-... was specified:
>
> VM warning: Ignoring option TraceClassPaths; support was removed in 16.0.
> Please use -Xlog:class+path=info instead.
>
> VM warning: Ignoring option TraceClassPaths; support was removed in 16.0.
> Please use -Xlog:class+path=off instead.
>
> The change was tested with tiers1and 2 on Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and
> tiers 3-5 on Linux x64 and with JCK lang and vm tests.
>
> Thanks, Harold
I agree with David. We should remove the helpful messages at least for most of
the obsolete Print/Trace flags. Not sure about the big 3 though.
src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp line 617:
> 615: #ifndef PRODUCT
> 616: // These options are removed in jdk9. Remove this code for jdk10.
> 617: static AliasedFlag const removed_develop_logging_flags[] = {
I think this removed_develop_logging_flags infrastructure should be removed.
src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp line 612:
> 610: { "TraceRedefineClasses", "-Xlog:redefine+class=", "info",
> "16.0" },
> 611: { "PrintJNIResolving", "-Xlog:jni+resolve=", "debug",
> "16.0" },
> 612: { NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL }
I think if we wanted to give a message that the flag was obsolete and to
suggest changing the command line, we should only do it for
-XX:+TraceClassLoading and -XX:+TraceExceptions (I'd originally thought
-XX:+TraceClassUnloading was important enough to release note but now I'm not
so sure.) The rest of the flags should either go in the table that they're no
longer recognized.
src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp line 1325:
> 1323: *arg == '+' ? obs_replacement->tag_name : "off");
> 1324: return true;
> 1325: }
I see you left this empty in case we change more flags to logging flags. I
don't see any Trace flags left that users would care about that merit this
amount of helpfulness. I think this should be removed too.
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Changes requested by coleenp (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1525
