> 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 incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Addresses issues from review and other sm fixes
  
  - Adds commenting in regards to memory handling by SystemProcess &
  NetworkInterface classes
  - Replaces explicit initialization and copy of structs with memcpy
  and memset as appropriate
  - Renames internal struct definitions in os_perf_aix
  - Other minor fixes

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6885/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6885/files/08837098..3618a77d

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=6885&range=16
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=6885&range=15-16

  Stats: 108 lines in 2 files changed: 19 ins; 56 del; 33 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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