> Just in time for the holidays I have completed an implementation of the JFR 
> functionality for AIX. As a side note, this is my first submission to OpenJDK 
> 👋
> 
> ### Implementation notes and alternatives considered
> 
> After modifying the build system to allow the --enable-jvm-feature-jfr to 
> work on AIX, my task was to implement the interfaces from os_perf.hpp. The 
> os_perf_aix.cpp implementation that existed was, I believe, a copy of the 
> Linux implementation. A review of the code in that file showed that 
> NetworkInterface, CPUPerformanceInterface, and SystemProcessInterface would 
> require modification to work on AIX. Using the Linux implementation as a 
> guide, I initially expected to use files from the aix procfs like 
> /proc/<pid>/psinfo, and /proc/<pid>/status in a manner similar to the Linux 
> implementation. However, I ended up using libperfstat for all functionality 
> required by the interfaces.
> 
> ### Testing
> 
> Testing for JFR seems to be quite light in the repo both before and after 
> this change. In addition to performing manual testing, I have added some 
> basic sanity checks that ensure events can be created and committed (using 
> jtreg), and performs some basic checks on the results of the interface member 
> functions (using gtest).
> 
> ### More notes
> 
> I've sent an email to the JFR group about a TOC overflow warning I 
> encountered while building (for the release server target). I believe the fix 
> is to pass -qpic=large when using the xlc toolchain, but my modifications to 
> flags-cflags.m4 have not been successful in removing this warning.

Tyler Steele has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
or a rebase. The pull request now contains one commit:

  Implements JFR on AIX
  
  - Implements interfaces from os_perf.hpp in os_perf_aix.cpp
  - Updates libperfstat_aix to contain functionality needed by os_perf_aix
  - Implements missing functionality in loadlib_aix (Fixes failure noted
  by TestNativeLibraies.java)
  - Removes platform checks for --enable-feature-jfr (Now enable-able on
  all platforms)
  - Enables TestNetworkUtilizationEvent.java which now passes on AIX
  - Updates AIX JavaThread::pd_get_top_frame_for_profiling with changes from 
Linux

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6885/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=6885&range=13
  Stats: 1195 lines in 10 files changed: 500 ins; 481 del; 214 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6885.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/6885/head:pull/6885

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6885

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